Yoga Practice Increases Minimum Muscular Fitness in Children with Visual Impairment

Yoga Practice Increases Minimum Muscular Fitness in Children with Visual Impairment.

INTRODUCTION Muscle strength, a component for balance, gait and functional mobility is vital for children with visual impairment. Yoga has frequently been demonstrated to improve physical and mental fitness in children. This study aimed to assess the effect of 16 weeks yoga training on muscular fitness in children with visual impairment. METHODS This was a wait-listed two-armed-matched case-co...

Yoga for persons with severe visual impairment: a feasibility study

This exploratory study aims to establish the feasibility of an Ashtanga-based Yoga Therapy (AYT) program for improving sleep disturbances, balance, and negative psychosocial states, which are prevalent issues for visually impaired (VI) individuals. Ten legally blind adult participants were randomized to an 8-week AYT program. Four subjects in the 1st cohort and three in the 2nd cohort successfu...

Visual impairment in children.

Development of visual acuity in children with cerebral visual impairment.

OBJECTIVE To study the development of visual acuity in term-born children with cerebral visual impairment and a history of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. METHODS We studied 19 term-born children, aged 6 months to 6 years, with moderate to severe neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and behaviors indicative of cerebral visual impairment. Longitudinal measures of grating acuity w...

Somatic development of children with visual impairment

The effect of sensory organ diseases on physical growth is not an issue that is frequently discussed in auxology. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physical growth of children and youth suffering from sight deficiency or blindness in respect of the degree of disability, its etiology, and therapies applied in the course of treatment. The study involved 288 subjects (126 girls and 162 boy...