Programa de fisioterapia aplicado no desenvolvimento motor de bebês saudáveis em ambiente familiar

the objective of this study was to evaluate changes in existing motor development of infants from parents and guidance to carers or in a program of interventional therapy in the family context.twenty two babies have participated, divided into two groups: intervention group (gi) and control group (gc). both groups were evaluated at the beginning and at the end of eight weeks. the gi mothers received instructions from a physical therapy program for babies and context changing guidelines at every week. the references used in this study were: scale alberta and the ahemd-sr questionnaire. for statistical analysis it was used the nonparametric tests of wilcoxon, mann-whitney, mcnemar and the correlation of spearman. it was observed a significant motor development in gi group comparing pre and post intervention (p=0,029). the results suggest that babies stimulated correcty in the home environment develop a higher quality in motor learning.