Are infants with torticollis at risk of a delay in early motor milestones compared with a control group of healthy infants?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 545-550

  Öhman, Anna ^a   Nilsson, Staffan ^b   Lagerkvist, Anna Lena ^a   Beckung, Eva ^c  

^a QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY POSTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; ONSET AGE; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SUPINE POSITION; TIME; TORTICOLLIS; WAKEFULNESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PLAGIOCEPHALY, NONSYNOSTOTIC; PRONE POSITION; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 67049117612     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03195.x     Document Type: Article

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