Developmental approach of gait - doi: 10.4025/reveducfis.v21i1.7389

Abstract

This study tried to analyze the pattern of the fundamental movement gait as subsidy for the understanding of the acquisition of the motor abilities in the childhood. The number of subjects of the study was constituted by 41 children between 3 and 8 years of age from private network of teaching. The instruments used in the research were the total body configuration approach and the cinemetry. The results demonstrated that: most of the children showed developed stage of walking; space-time variables indicated typical behavior in function normalized speed with positive accentuations for the self-selected speed, stride length, step cadence and step length; and negative for stride time. It is concluded that there is a tendency of the development motor levels when related to the normalized speed, children that presented values above 0.40 were found in the mature stage.