Development of Upper Body Coordination During Sitting in Infants With or at Risk for Cerebral Palsy

2010

Reggie Harbourne

Our goal was to determine how the actions of the thorax and the pelvis are controlled to achieve independent sitting posture in infants with or at risk for cerebral palsy (CP). Twenty seven infants that scored less than 1.5 SD below the mean for their corrected age on the Peabody Developmental Scale came to the lab twice per month for four months. A physical therapist always ranked sitting behavior according to three stages: 1) Prop sitting, 2) Variable, about 10 seconds of sitting, and 3) Sits upright all the time. Stage of sitting was considered the appropriate variable of development, because of the age variability which infants began to sit.

Conference presentations and posters presented

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

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