The physical fitness and motor ability in the handicapped children such as cerebral palsy have been hardly examined. In order to improve the physical function, it is important to measure the physical fitness and motor ability from the point of view of exercise physiology. Furthermore, the adequate training programme on the basis of the analysis of the motor function must be presented to the handicapped.
　The present study was carried out determine the physiological intensities of cerebral palsy children during swimming exercises. Heart rate responses during swimming exercises were recorded continuously by telemetry in 5 severe cerebral subjects of 9-11 years of age. Maximum heart rates ranged from 128 to 198 beats/min and mean heart rates were 99-163 beats/min. Mean heart rates during swimming were 149 and 163 beats/min in athetotic subjects and 99, 105 and 121 beats/min in spastic subjects. There was tendency that heart rate of the athetotics was more increased than that of spastic subjects.

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