The usage of playing games and symbolic in Cerebral Paralysis

This study is aimed at verifying the utilization of toys, games and play as technique supporting in the treatment of children with Cerebral Paralysis (CP). It’s a exploratory descriptive study, of qualitative descriptive nature. The studied population was composed by professionals of the area of Physical Therapy, chosen in a random intentional way who worked on the treatment of children with confirmed diagnosis of CP, in clinics and hospitals of the cities of Jequié, Itapetinga and Salvador, in the state of Bahia. The data were collected with a survey made by the authors of the study and analyzed in a descriptive way. Most of the Physical Therapists (94,4%) utilize the playing games and symbolic in the treatment of children with CP. The fit toys (66,6%) and sound toys (55,5%) where the more cited ones, the larger importance was a better interaction therapist patient (61,1%), the contributions were making treatment more dynamic and the best answer therapist/patient. The most cited advantage was make the treatment easier (53,54%) and the disadvantage was the dispersion of the treatment (30,76%) the utilization of playing games and symbolic as supporting technique in the treatment of children with CP, as long as utilized the right way are of paramount importance to support the neuropsychomotor growing process, motor coordination and children’s attention, as well as acting in a way that improves the interaction therapist/patient, and makes the treatment more dynamic