ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2016
Restricted Arm Swing Affects Gait Stability and Increased Walking Speed Alters Trunk Movements in Children with Cerebral Palsy.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05444387 (The Effect of Upper Limb Loading With External Weights During Partial Body Weight Support Treadmill Training on Gait and Trunk Control in Ambulatory Children With Cerebral Palsy), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers.
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The Effect of Upper Limb Loading With External Weights During Partial Body Weight Support Treadmill Training on Gait and Trunk Control in Ambulatory Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Comparison of marker-based and center-of-pressure-based approaches for calculating the margin of stability.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Transhumeral prosthesis use affects upper body kinematics and kinetics.Gait & posture · 2024Article
- Clinical gait analysis in older children with autism spectrum disorder.Sports medicine and health science · 2024Article
- Biomechanical gait parameters change with increasing virtual height in a child with spastic cerebral palsy: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Arm Swing Features and Asymmetry during Gait in Parkinson's Disease Using the Azure Kinect Sensor.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Effect of Unilateral Shoulder Disorder on the Stance Phase of Human Gait.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2022Article
- Carrying Asymmetric Loads While Walking on a Treadmill Interferes with Lower Limb Coordination.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Kinect V2-Based Gait Analysis for Children with Cerebral Palsy: Validity and Reliability of Spatial Margin of Stability and Spatiotemporal Variables.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Comment: difference between assessment of upper limb movement and upper limb associated reactions during walking.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Development of the Relationships Among Dynamic Balance Control, Inter-limb Coordination, and Torso Coordination During Gait in Children Aged 3-10 Years.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Walking With Ears: Altered Auditory Feedback Impacts Gait Step Length in Older Adults.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2020Article
- Maturation of the Locomotor Circuitry in Children With Cerebral Palsy.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Review
- Modulation of gait inter-limb coordination in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy after intensive upper extremity intervention.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- Construct Validity and Reliability of the SARA Gait and Posture Sub-scale in Early Onset Ataxia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- The Differential Effect of Arm Movements during Gait on the Forward Acceleration of the Centre of Mass in Children with Cerebral Palsy and Typically Developing Children.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Observational research suggests that in children with cerebral palsy, the altered arm swing is linked to instability during walking. Therefore, the current study investigates whether children with cerebral palsy use their arms more than typically developing children, to enhance gait stability. Evidence also suggests an influence of walking speed on gait stability. Moreover, previous research highlighted a link between walking speed and arm swing. Hence, the experiment aimed to explore differences between typically developing children and children with cerebral palsy taking into account the combined influence of restricting arm swing and increasing walking speed on gait stability. Spatiotemporal gait characteristics, trunk movement parameters and margins of stability were obtained using three dimensional gait analysis to assess gait stability of 26 children with cerebral palsy and 24 typically developing children. Four walking conditions were evaluated: (i) free arm swing and preferred walking speed; (ii) restricted arm swing and preferred walking speed; (iii) free arm swing and high walking speed; and (iv) restricted arm swing and high walking speed. Double support time and trunk acceleration variability increased more when arm swing was restricted in children with bilateral cerebral palsy compared to typically developing children and children with unilateral cerebral palsy. Trunk sway velocity increased more when walking speed was increased in children with unilateral cerebral palsy compared to children with bilateral cerebral palsy and typically developing children and in children with bilateral cerebral palsy compared to typically developing children. Trunk sway velocity increased more when both arm swing was restricted and walking speed was increased in children with bilateral cerebral palsy compared to typically developing children. It is proposed that facilitating arm swing during gait rehabilitation can improve gait stability and decrease trunk movements in children with cerebral palsy. The current results thereby partly support the suggestion that facilitating arm swing in specific situations possibly enhances safety and reduces the risk of falling in children with cerebral palsy.
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