ArticleInfant behavior & development2016
Infant born preterm have delayed development of adaptive postural control in the first 5 months of life.
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- Sitting Acquisition and Early Communication Development: Are There Associations in Very Preterm Infants at Six Months of Corrected Age?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Using the center of pressure movement analysis in evaluating spontaneous movements in infants: a comparative study with general movements assessment.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Infant movement classification through pressure distribution analysis.Communications medicine · 2023Article
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- The Effect of a Social-Emotional Intervention on the Development of Preterm Infants in Institutions.Infants and young children · 2018Article
- Influence of Sitting Positions and Level of Trunk Control During Reaching Movements in Late Preterm and Full-Term Infants.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2018Article
- An update of the development of motor behavior.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive scienceReview
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unlabelledInfants born preterm are at increased risk of developmental disabilities, that may be attributed to their early experiences and ability to learn. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the ability of infants born preterm to adapt their postural control to changing task demands.
methodsThis study included 18 infants born at 32 weeks of gestation or less whose posture was compared in supine under 2 conditions, with and without a visual stimulus presented. The postural variability, measured with root mean squared displacement of the center of pressure, and postural complexity, measured with the approximate entropy of the center of pressure displacement were measured longitudinally from 2.5 to 5 months of age. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: The infants looked at the toys in midline for several months prior to adapting their postural variability in a manner similar to full term infants. Only after postural variability was reduced in both the caudal cephalic and medial lateral direction in the toy condition did the infants learn to reach for the toy. Postural complexity did not vary between conditions. These findings suggest that infants used a variety of strategies to control their posture. In contrast to research with infants born full term, the infants born preterm in this study did not identify the successful strategy of reducing movement of the center of pressure until months after showing interest in the toy. This delayed adaptation may impact the infants ability to learn over time.
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