Low motor performance scores among overweight children: Poor coordination or morphological constraints?

Human Movement Science

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1127-1137

  Chivers, Paola ^a   Larkin, Dawne ^b   Rose, Elizabeth ^a   Beilin, Lawrence ^c   Hands, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Coordination; McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development (MAND); Motor performance obesity; Raine Study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCCARRON ASSESSMENT OF NEUROMUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT TEST ITEM SCORE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CHILD; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; WEIGHT LOSS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84889585682     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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