Trial reportChild: care, health and development2020
Relationship between changes in motor capacity and objectively measured motor performance in ambulatory children with spastic cerebral palsy.
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- Relationship between changes in motor capacity and objectively measured motor performance in ambulatory children with spastic cerebral palsy.Child: care, health and development · 2020Trial
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- Power Training Combined With Interval Treadmill Training in Cerebral Palsy: An RCT.Pediatrics · 2026Article
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- Sitting Capacity and Performance in Infants with Typical Development and Infants with Motor Delay.Physical & occupational therapy in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Development of the Gross Motor Function Family Report (GMF-FR) for Children with Cerebral Palsy.Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2023Article
- Walking activities beyond gait training: Priorities in everyday life for parents and adolescents in pediatric neurorehabilitation.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicine · 2022Review
- Multidimensional Measures of Physical Activity and Their Association with Gross Motor Capacity in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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- Walking Speed of Children and Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy: Laboratory Versus Daily Life.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundDifferent interventions are offered to children with cerebral palsy (CP) to improve the activity domain of the international classification of functioning (ICF). In therapy settings, the focus is mostly on motor capacity, but the ultimate goal is to improve motor performance. We therefore examined if changes in motor capacity outcomes are accompanied by changes in objectively measured motor performance after a 3-month intensive treatment period in ambulatory children with CP.
methodsA secondary analysis on prospective clinical trial data was performed using multivariate linear regression. Sixty-five children (37 boys and 28 girls) with spastic CP, mean age 7 years and 3 months, Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels I-III were involved in a distinct 3-month intensive treatment period. Motor capacity (Gross Motor Function Measure [GMFM], functional muscle strength [FMS], and walking speed [WS]) and motor performance (using three Actigraph-GT3X+-derived outcome measures) were measured at baseline, 12 and 24 weeks.
resultsNo significant associations were found for any of the change scores (∆
conclusionsChanges in motor capacity are mostly not accompanied by changes in objectively measured motor performance after an intensive treatment period for ambulatory children with CP. These findings should be taken into account during goal setting and are important to manage expectations of both short- and longer term effects of treatment programmes.
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