Drums Alive® – Drumming On Exercise Balls As The Means For Development Of Coordination
Vol.7,No.3(2013)
Quality of coordination of movement significantly influences everyday life of people and creates preconditions for effectively acquiring motor skills. Stability, locomotor movement and manipulative movement are the fundamental motor skills (Doty, McEven, Parker & Laskin, 1999). People with disability are not often able to perform many of them on the same level as their peers without disability. Imperfections in movement coordination can be negatively reflected in quality of their life. On the basis of published knowledge about appropriate movement interventions on development of movement coordination by people without disability we can apply individually adjusted specific movement programs for people with various disabilities. Our paper is focused on the use of a new specialisation in music and movement therapy, Drums Alive® (drumming on exercise balls in holders). Drums Alive® unites the dynamic and dance movements with the pulsating rhythms of the drums. It is a sensorimotor program, which the author Carrie Ekins designed as a combination of drumming activities and targeted movement activity (Ekins, 2012). By means of these activities it is possible to influence the quality and level of motor skills and better movement coordination used primarily in common life of disabled people.
drumming on exercise balls; coordination; motor skills
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