ArticlePloS one2015
Gait in Very Preterm School-Aged Children in Dual-Task Paradigms.
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- Can slow and (un)steady still win the race? A narrative review of developmental gait characteristics and clinical implications in children born preterm.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Review
- Multi-task interference during walking in children, adolescents and young adults.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Gait characteristics in 6-year-old children born extremely preterm.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Gait Variables and Step-to-Step Variability in Preschool-Aged Children Born Very Preterm at Risk for Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Neonatal hyperoxia in mice triggers long-term cognitive deficits via impairments in cerebrovascular function and neurogenesis.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2022Article
- A cross-sectional analysis on the effects of age on dual tasking in typically developing children.Psychological research · 2019Article
- Temporal frequency discrimination in amblyopia.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2018Article
- Quantification of gait in children with mitochondrial disease.Journal of inherited metabolic disease · 2018Article
- Gait in Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in a Dual-Task Paradigm.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Walking in School-Aged Children in a Dual-Task Paradigm Is Related to Age But Not to Cognition, Motor Behavior, Injuries, or Psychosocial Functioning.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe control of gait requires executive and attentional functions. As preterm children show executive and attentional deficits compared to full-term children, performing concurrent tasks that impose additional cognitive load may lead to poorer walking performance in preterm compared to full-term children. Knowledge regarding gait in preterm children after early childhood is scarce. We examined straight walking and if it is more affected in very preterm than in full-term children in dual-task paradigms. STUDY
designTwenty preterm children with very low birth-weight (≤ 1500 g), 24 preterm children with birth-weight > 1500 g, and 44 full-term children, born between 2001 and 2006, were investigated. Gait was assessed using an electronic walkway system (GAITRite) while walking without a concurrent task (single-task) and while performing one concurrent (dual-task) or two concurrent (triple-task) tasks. Spatio-temporal gait parameters (gait velocity, cadence, stride length, single support time, double support time), normalized gait parameters (normalized velocity, normalized cadence, normalized stride length) and gait variability parameters (stride velocity variability, stride length variability) were analyzed.
resultsIn dual- and triple-task conditions children showed decreased gait velocity, cadence, stride length, as well as increased single support time, double support time and gait variability compared to single-task walking. Further, results showed systematic decreases in stride velocity variability from preterm children with very low birth weight (≤ 1500 g) to preterm children with birth weight > 1500 g to full-term children. There were no significant interactions between walking conditions and prematurity status.
conclusionsDual and triple tasking affects gait of preterm and full-term children, confirming previous results that walking requires executive and attentional functions. Birth-weight dependent systematic changes in stride velocity variability indicate poorer walking performance in preterm children who were less mature at birth.
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