Coordination of reaching in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy under different task demands

Motor Control

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 357-371

  Ricken, Annieck X C ^a,b   Bennett, Simon J ^c   Savelsbergh, Geert J P ^a,b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angle angle plots; Children; Coordination; Degrees of freedom; Postural adjustments; Reaching; Spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy

Indexed keywords

ARM DISEASE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECELERATION; ELBOW; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LINEAR SYSTEM; MOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRUNK; WRIST;

EID: 27744555724     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.9.4.357     Document Type: Article

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