Influencia de la práctica de actividad física extraescolar en la calidad de movimiento de niños y niñas de la ciudad de Viedma

Abstract

The practice of physical activity in childhood has a fundamental role in the development of cognitive, affective, social and motor behavior. It is known that low motor competence causes different types of injuries, postural and gait alterations, so identifying this at an early age decreases their appearance or reduces the probability of their progress. The hypothesis raised at the beginning of the investigation was that the practice of extracurricular physical activity has a positive influence on the quality of movement of children. The general objective of this research work is to determine the influence of the practice of extracurricular physical activity in the development of motor skills in children of Viedma, Río Negro during the year 2022. The present work has a quantitative, descriptive, non-experimental and cross-sectional methodological approach; of which a total of 72 boys and girls with an age between 9 and 11 years old took part. Data were obtained through the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) and the measurement of anthropometric data to determine the body mass index of the participants. Finally, the data obtained in the IBM SPSS Statistics 21 program were used to carry out the statistical processing and the Google Sheets platform was used to carry out the corresponding graphs. The analysis of the data obtained shows that the practice of extracurricular physical activity (AFE) improves the motor skills of infants compared to children who do not practice them. Also, it can be seen that in terms of symmetry, children who do not practice AFE have similar scores in both sides of the body, consistent with more symmetrical mobility, stability and balance. Finally, it is important to highlight that a key factor that affects these abilities is a high body mass index, since in both groups of volunteers these children were the ones who obtained the lowest scores when performing the Functional Movement Screen.