INTRODUCTION: Children with disabilities have congenital visual deficit of static and dynamic balance compared to children with normal vision of the same age. Given the lack of vision to provide the sensory information to enable a feedback postural balance becomes difficult, so the importance of stimulating the vestibular and proprioceptive pathways through exercises. Stabilometry is a method for analysis of postural balance by measuring the oscillations of the body, a platform, which shifts the axis anterior-posterior and side-side are analyzed in terms of central pressure. OBJECTIVE: To assess the balance through stabilometry in visually impaired children between 5 and 13 years before and after therapeutic exercises. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The sample comprised ten children, two visually impaired (total) children and eight visually impaired (subtotal) children. After evaluation by stabilometry, children underwent an exercise protocol for a period of two months, and were evaluated again at the end. RESULTS: The mean age was 8.52 (± 2.33) years old, the value of significance found to body speed was p = 0.0001 and for shifting the body was p = 0.016, so there is a statistically significant improvement in the speed of oscillation and displacement of the body of children. CONCLUSION: Based on the results of this study, it can be proven that the proposed therapeutic exercises helps to improve balance, verifying the importance of physical therapy intervention in children with visual impairments.
Balance; Blindness; Child; Therapy
