Specific postural support promotes variation in motor behaviour of infants with minor neurological dysfunction

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 966-972

  de Graaf Peters, Victorine B ^a   De Groot Hornstra, Agnes H ^a   Dirks, Tineke ^a   Hadders Algra, Mijna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPINE POSITION; VIDEORECORDING;

ARM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LEG; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; POSTURE; THORAX;

EID: 33751075977     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001216220600212X     Document Type: Article

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