Abstract

Karate can be usefully employed in sports medicine. The correction of deportment is accomplished via the principles of formative kinesiology, using gestures preferred by the young (formative karate); correction of muscle equilibrium (underlying paramorphism) requires techniques elaborated for differentiated analytical work (kinesitherapeutic karate); psychomotor education and general potentiation of the body use non-competitive technical training suitable with regard to quality, quantity and rhythm to age of development, so as to avoid fatique and harmful exertion (orthogenetic karate). Deportment, psychomotor and respiratory training are common features in these methods, while kinesitherapeutic karate offers 1) work based on localised, analytical and decompensated movement, aimed at the correction of muscle deficiencies and therestoration of segmental equilibria; 2) correction of scoliosis by active and passive action on hypo-and hypertonic muscles and re-establishment of muscle tone in accordance with long and short muscle and isometric contraction principles, as its exclusive features. Verf.-Referat (gekuerzt)