El Método Vojta en el Desarrollo de la Motricidad Gruesa en niños de 6 a 10 meses del Centro de Desarrollo Infantil y Estimulación Gymbore Gardens

Abstract

The first year of the childs life is very important in the gross motor development becuase all knowledge and learning aquired focuses on actions and experiences gained through the childs body. The child reaches and make movements, postures, coordination and balance, as well as refine uncontrolled movements, abnormal and involuntary as neurological, respitory and metabolica system. Its to say having a thick motor control leading the development of other areas of comprhensive development, enabling research, overcome and transfor situations of conflict, face limitations, relate with others, meet and oppose their fears, project their fantasies, develop their own iniatitive, assume roles, enjoy games while expressing themselves freely, which is why it is important to know how stimulate this area appropiately. Meeting the needs of a full development of gross motor skills og the child is, the Vojta Method, referring to a specific genetic program of the species called “ontogénesis motora”. From the motor milestones of child development from birth based on the postural patterns ideals and locomotion during the transformation from experiences neurological and emotional in biological signals. Account the maintenance of posture, balance, the direction of the sets of muscles that act throughout the body, moving in all directions of the space and a certain mobility, considered as the development of the global motor patterns. From the birth to the the freewheeling The Vojta Method is applied in two ways; The Reflex Drag and Turning Reflex, the Reflex Drag conducts a movement of dragging motion while the Turning Reflex conducts the quadruped march. For this the the therapist selectively presses certain areas of the body placing the patient sitting, prone, supine or lateral activating in the patient those muscle functions used unconsciously and necessary for the gross motor skills for day to day.