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Abstract: Kinetoprophylaxy is frequently applied within dance sessions for children of low and middle school-age, in order to maintain a good state of health. Therapy through ballroom dance, whose theme content is adapted to the specific prophylactic particularities, favors a re-balancing of the postural control of the body of the practitioner. This study aims to create an instrument of assessment and in-depth analysis of the beneficial effects of dancing in preventing the onset or aggravation of certain psycho-postural and walking deficiencies. From a practical perspective, it aims to create an efficient working instrument for the prevention of physical and functional deficiencies of the growing and somato-functional developing body.
Keywords: health, dance therapy, kinetoprophylaxy, vicious attitudes and postural deficiencies
1.Introduction
Both the growing imbalances specific to these ages, as well as the asymmetric biomechanics of the motric dance structures, favor the disruption - and in some cases, prevent the onset - of defective attitudes in the somatic components of the body, and in such cases prevention plays a huge role in combating them. Although dancing gained in modern times an ever growing importance, and its positive effects on the harmonious development of the child and youngster have been recognized, the physical therapy through dance still does not enjoy sufficient attention from the specialists.
Covering numerous interests, within kinetoprophylaxy there have been various means developed, which, although based on the same laws and using the physical exercises as own means, differ according to: the specific objectives, and the methodology and precise methods of drafting the treatment plans and programs. One of these means is kinetoprophylaxy.
Kinetoprophylaxy is considered and integral and innovative branch of therapy through movement, built on the axiom, unanimously accepted within the medical sciences, that "it is better to prevent than to cure".
In the specialized literature, there are numerous definitions of kinetoprophylaxy.
According to a first definition, the kinetoprophylaxy studies the process of optimization of health and of prevention of illness, with the help of physical exercises. [5]
Kinetoprophylaxy is, according to Sbenghe T., (2002), applying the aerobic exercises grafted on the principles of the medical training science. [4] It applies to both the healthy individual, in order to protect him from illness and from the onset of physical deconditioning (primary or...