Motivating Selective Motor Control of Infants at High Risk of Cerebral Palsy Using an In-Home Kicking-Activated Mobile Task: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Decreased selective motor control limits gait function of children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Infants at high risk of CP demonstrate decreased selective motor control by 1 month of age. To motivate more selective hip-knee control, infants at high risk of CP participated in an in-home kicking-activated mobile task. The purpose of this study was to determine whether infants at high risk of CP and infants with typical development (TD) demonstrated increased selective hip-knee control during 2-minute intervals of the mobile task when they demonstrated learning of the association between their leg movement and mobile activation vs during 2-minute intervals when they did not demonstrate learning.

Methods

Participants in this cohort study included 10 infants at hig

SUBMITTER: Sargent B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8869361 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature