Trial reportExperimental brain research2008
Strategy adoption and locomotor adjustment in obstacle clearance of newly walking toddlers with Down syndrome after different treadmill interventions.
Trial report in Experimental brain research, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of Early Motor Interventions on Gross Motor and Locomotor Development for Infants at-Risk of Motor Delay: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Treadmill interventions in children under six years of age at risk of neuromotor delay.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Aerobic exercise training programmes for improving physical and psychosocial health in adults with Down syndrome.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2010Pooled it
- A systematic review of the effectiveness of treadmill training and body weight support in pediatric rehabilitation.Journal of neurologic physical therapy : JNPT · 2009Pooled it
- Body Weight Support Treadmill Training for Children With Developmental Delay Who Are Ambulatory.Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association · 2015Trial
- Developmental Trajectories of Locomotor Skills in Infants With Down Syndrome.Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association · 2026Observational
- Benefits of Treadmill Training for Patients with Down Syndrome: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Physical activity in infancy and early childhood: a narrative review of interventions for prevention of obesity and associated health outcomes.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
- Stimulating the motor development of very premature infants: effects of early crawling training on a mini-skateboard.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- The multiple process model of goal-directed aiming/reaching: insights on limb control from various special populations.Experimental brain research · 2020Review
- Gait and postural control patterns and rehabilitation in Down syndrome: a systematic review.Journal of physical therapy science · 2020Review
- Feedback reliance during an arm-tapping task with obstacle avoidance in adults with Down syndrome.Experimental brain research · 2013Article
- Sensory feedback modulates quipazine-induced stepping behavior in the newborn rat.Behavioural brain research · 2012Article
- Anticipatory postural adjustments in children with typical motor development.Experimental brain research · 2010Article
- Spatiotemporal and kinematic aspects of obstacle avoidance in subjects with Down syndrome.Functional neurologyArticle
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
This study investigated how newly walking toddlers with Down syndrome (DS), after different treadmill interventions, adopted clearance strategies and modified anticipatory locomotor adjustment patterns to negotiate an obstacle in their travel path. Thirty infants with DS (about 10 months of age) were recruited and randomly assigned to either a lower-intensity, generalized (LG) treadmill training group, or a higher-intensity, individualized (HI) treadmill training group. Thirteen in each group completed a one-year-gait follow-up after the treadmill intervention. Initially, both groups chose to either crawl or walk over an obstacle. However, walking over the obstacle became their preferred clearance strategy over the course of the gait follow-up even though the height of the obstacle increased from visit to visit. The HI group used the strategy of walking over the obstacle at a considerably higher percentage than the LG group within 6 months after the training. When approaching the obstacle, both groups started to show consistent anticipatory locomotor adjustments about 6 months after the training. Both groups decreased velocity, cadence and step length, and increased step width at the last three pre-obstacle steps. It was concluded that the retention of the HI training effects led the HI group to predominantly walk over an obstacle earlier than the LG group within 6 months after treadmill intervention, and the two groups produced similar anticipatory locomotor adjustments in the last three steps before negotiating the obstacle.
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