Impact of mother's care burden, fatigue and child's functional level on quality of life in spastic cerebral palsy.

Background And Purpose: Cerebral palsy (CP) may be considered one of the most common motor disabilities that require a lot of caregiving from mothers or caregivers; therefore, the mothers of children with CP face a lot of difficulties in their caregiving, which in turn may affect the child's quality of life (QOL). This work was conducted to evaluate the impact of the children's functional level in different types of spastic CP, mothers' care burden (CB), and fatigue on the child's QOL.

Methods: One hundred thirty-eight children with different types of spastic CP (unilateral and bilateral) with different levels of the gross motor function classification system (GMFCS), with an age range of 6-12 years, and their mothers with ages ranged from 25 to 45 years, participated in this study.

The effect of incentive spirometer training on oromotor and pulmonary functions in children with Down's syndrome.

Objectives: This study investigated the effect of incentive spirometry training on oromotor and pulmonary functions in children with Down's syndrome.

Methods: Thirty-four children with Down's syndrome were randomly divided into two groups; the children were of both sexes and aged between 6 and 12 years. Group A received only oromotor exercises, while Group B received oromotor exercises and incentive spirometry training.

Physical and cognitive consequences of fatigue: A review.

Fatigue is a common worrying complaint among people performing physical activities on the basis of training or rehabilitation. An enormous amount of research articles have been published on the topic of fatigue and its effect on physical and physiological functions. The goal of this review was to focus on the effect of fatigue on muscle activity, proprioception, and cognitive functions and to summarize the results to understand the influence of fatigue on these functions.