Posture and movement in healthy preterm infants in supine position in and outside the nest

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ferrari, Fabrizio ^a   Bertoncelli, N ^a   Gallo, C ^a   Roversi, M F ^a   Guerra, M P ^a   Ranzi, A ^a   Hadders Algra, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; KNEE FUNCTION; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION;

ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; REST; SHOULDER; SUPINE POSITION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WRIST;

EID: 34548721471     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.101154     Document Type: Article

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