Kinematic analysis of kicking movements in preterm infants with very low birth weight and full-term infants.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Study of kicking development provides important information to understand how early spontaneous movements change in infants as they acquire voluntary control. Researchers have investigated the kicking movements of preterm infants; however, the movement patterns that they have...
| Publicado en: | Physical Therapy Vol. 82; no. 2; pp. 148 - 160 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2002
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106919594&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106919594 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00319023 PTH jtl: Physical Therapy issn: 00319023 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2002 vid: 82 iid: 2 pid: 10398 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 106919594 2002050544 10.1093/ptj/82.2.148 NLM11856066 106919594 ppf: 148 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Kinematic analysis of kicking movements in preterm infants with very low birth weight and full-term infants. aug: au: Jeng S Chen L Yau KT affil: Associate Professor, School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, No. 7 Chun-Shan South Rd, Taipei, Taiwan; jeng@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw sug: subj: Movement Evaluation Motion Analysis Systems Kinematics Hip Joint Physiology Ankle Joint Physiology Gestational Age Infant, Premature Infant, Very Low Birth Weight Comparative Studies Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Paired T-Tests Analysis of Variance Repeated Measures Chi Square Test Infant, Newborn Female Male Funding Source Human Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month Female Male ab: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Study of kicking development provides important information to understand how early spontaneous movements change in infants as they acquire voluntary control. Researchers have investigated the kicking movements of preterm infants; however, the movement patterns that they have described were inconsistent. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to examine the development of kicking movements with kinematic analysis in preterm infants with very low birth weight (VLBW) and full-term infants. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Twenty-two infants with VLBW who were divided into low gestational age (gestational age of <30 weeks, n=9) and high gestational age (gestational age of >or=30 weeks, n=13) classes and 22 full-term infants were evaluated during kicking movements using 4 synchronized cameras and 3-dimensional kinematic analysis when the infants were 2 and 4 months of corrected age. RESULTS: The infants with VLBW and a high gestational age showed similar kicking movements compared with the full-term infants. In contrast, the infants with VLBW and a low gestational age exhibited a higher kick frequency and a shorter flexion phase at 4 months of corrected age. They also exhibited a higher hip-knee correlation and lower variability in the interlimb coordination pattern at 2 and 4 months of corrected age. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The findings indicate that infants with VLBW, particularly those with a low gestational age, have age-related differences in movement organization and coordination of kicking compared with full-term infants. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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