AIM Improvement of gross motor function and mobility are primary goals of physical therapy in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between segmental control of the trunk and the corresponding gross motor function in children with CP. METHOD This retrospective cross-sectional study was based on 92 consecutive referrals of children wit...

AIM To explore the appropriateness of using the interval-scale version of the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66) in paediatric acquired brain injury (ABI), and to characterize GMFM-66 recovery trajectories and factors that affect them. METHOD An observational study of gross motor recovery trajectories during rehabilitation at a single specialist paediatric in-patient rehabilitation centre...

Concurrent and predictive validities of the Bayley Motor Scale and the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales were examined by administering both tests to 23 full-term and 21 healthy premature infants at 12, 15, and 18 months of age. For both groups, a correlation analysis of age-equivalent scores indicated Bayley scores had good to high correlation with Peabody gross motor scores (range, r = .78 t...

AIM To examine the relation between physical fitness and gross motor capacity in children with cerebral palsy (CP) who were classified in Gross Motor Function Classification System levels I or II. METHOD In total, 68 children with CP (mean age 12y 1mo, SD 2y 8mo; 44 males, 24 females; 45 classified as having spastic unilateral CP, 23 as having spastic bilateral CP) participated in this study....

BACKGROUND The Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) has become an important tool to describe motor function in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). The Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) was developed recently as a corresponding classification of manual ability. The aim of this study was to describe the association between gross motor function and manual ability in a total ...

Acquisition of gross motor sequence learning with physical and mental training elicits gains in performance. However, the effects sleep or daytime consolidation after both types practice remain unclear, especially upon goal- movement-based components a sequential task. The main purpose this study was to test effect (PP) imagery (MIP) on acquisition processes learning. Seventy-six participants w...

The aim of this paper was to contribute to the elaboration of the Environmental Stress Hypothesis framework by testing eight hypotheses addressing the direct impact of gross motor coordination problems in elementary-school on selected physical, behavioral and psychosocial outcomes in adolescence. Results are based on a longitudinal sample of 940 participants who were (i) recruited as part of a ...

Gross motor skills are the basic movements infants acquired (birth-24months). These include reflexes, balancing, crawling, standing and walking. Motor study is important in understanding infant development for three reasons. Firstly, infants devote around half of their waking hours, around 5/6 hours, towards motor behaviour (Adolph & Joh, 2007), necessitating the implications of motor acquisiti...

Motor development, which allows infants to explore their environment, promoting cognitive, social, and perceptual development, can be influenced by cultural practices and nutritional factors, such as iron deficiency. This study compared fine and gross motor development in 209 9-month-old infants from urban areas of China, Ghana, and USA (African-Americans) and considered effects of iron status....

Objective: To analyze the global motor performance and the gross and fine motor skills of infants attending two public child care centers full-time. Methods: This was a longitudinal study that included 30 infants assessed at 12 and 17 months of age with the Motor Scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III). This scale allows the analysis of global mo...