How do babies roll? Identifying the coordinated movements of infant rolling through video compared to laboratory techniques.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rolling is an important developmental milestone for infants where identifying the coordinated movement patterns could facilitate the early identification of motor development delays. Current methods for identifying coordinated movements of rolling are limited to a laboratory setting and not feasible for clinicians.

Objective

To develop video-based methods in which six coordinated movements, previously defined through motion capture, can be identified through video alone.

Methods

Forty-five videos of sixteen healthy infants achieving a roll were used to develop the video-based methodology and twenty-four videos had corresponding motion capture data used for validation. Four raters comprised of researchers and a clinician identified rolling coordination using

SUBMITTER: Siegel DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11222302 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature