ArticleScientific reports2021
Unimanual and bimanual motor performance in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) provide evidence for underlying motor control deficits.
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- Effects of Wii-Fit games training on motor skills, balance, and agility in children with developmental coordination disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Quantifying Similarities Between MediaPipe and a Known Standard to Address Issues in Tracking 2D Upper Limb Trajectories: Proof of Concept Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Use of Virtual Reality in School-Aged Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Novel Approach.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Characterization of bilateral reaching development using augmented reality games.Human movement science · 2024Article
- Spatial Accuracy and Variability in Dart Throwing in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder and the Relationship with Ball Skill Items.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- Future of ADHD Care: Evaluating the Efficacy of ChatGPT in Therapy Enhancement.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Relationship between somatosensory and visuo-perceptual impairments and motor functions in adults with hemiparetic cerebral palsy.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Generalizability of muscle synergies in isometric force generation versus point-to-point reaching in the human upper extremity workspace.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Motor Skills and Visual Deficits in Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
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Abstract
Much of our understanding of motor control deficits in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) comes from upper limb assessments focusing on the dominant limb. Here, using two robotic behavioural tasks, we investigated motor control in both the dominant and non-dominant limbs of children with DCD. Twenty-six children with diagnosed DCD (20 males; mean age 10.6 years ± 1.3 years) and 155 controls were included in this cross-sectional study. Participants completed a visually guided reaching task with their dominant and non-dominant limbs and a bimanual object hitting task. Motor performance was quantified across nine parameters. We determined the number of children with DCD who fell outside of the typical performance range of the controls on these parameters and compared the DCD and control groups using ANCOVAs, accounting for age. Children with DCD demonstrated impairments in six out of nine parameters; deficits were more commonly noted in the non-dominant limb. Interestingly, when looking at individual performance, several children with DCD performed in the range of controls. These findings indicate that children with DCD display deficits in motor control in both the dominant and non-dominant limb and highlight the importance of including detailed assessments of both limbs when investigating children with DCD. They also demonstrate the variability in motor control performance evidenced by children with DCD.
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