Postural study of Handicapped children studying in regular schools

Abstract

Sitting down in a natural human posture. people sit down because they feel that sitting is less fatigue giving than standing. But many children perform their table work as per convenient posture without realizing the cost of work and other Physiological damages to the body in that posture with ordinary chair provided to them in the schools. So present study was carried out to find the time expenditure and posture profile of physically handicapped children, postural stress and frequency of postural changes while using ordinary chair provided to them in the regular schools. For this with the help of multistaged purposive random sampling thirty three physically handicapped children studying in regular school were selected. Data were gathered with the help of obsevation cum recording method. The findings of the study reveals that while using ordinary chair. Students spent maximum time in neck and shoulder tense position due to stress and work and poorly supported to unstable legs, back in stopped position. Elbow arm and joints were found in wxtreme position. For postural stress 3.98 percent deviation in upper angle of back and 4.90 percent deviation in lower angle of back was calculated and frequency of postural changes was found greater while using ordinary chair as compare to ergonomic chair.