1. Age effect on upper limb kinematics assessed by REAplan robot. A prospective study in healthy children from 3 to 12years old
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Thierry Lejeune, Maxime Gilliaux, Julien Sapin, F. Dierckx, Bruno Dehez, Christine Detrembleur, Gaëtan Stoquart, and L. Vanden Berghe
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Age effect ,Kinematics ,Upper extremity ,business.industry ,Rehabilitation ,Biomechanics ,Robotics ,Outcome assessment ,Horizontal plane ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Physical therapy ,Medicine ,Upper limb ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Prospective cohort study ,business ,Children ,Reference standards - Abstract
Introduction : kinematic assessment is recommended to evaluate upper limb movements quantitatively. The aims of this study were to develop norms of upper limb kinematics for healthy children and to determine the effect of age on kinematic indices. Materials and Methods : ninety-three healthy children (3 to 12 years), participated to the study. Five kinematic indices were computed from two unidirectional (i.e., reaching a target and performing a back-and-forth movement) and two geometrical (i.e., drawing a circle and a square) tasks (1). Each task was performed 10 consecutive times with the REAplan, which is a distal effector robotic device that allows upper limb displacements in the horizontal plane. Results : four indices showed an improvement from 3 to 6 years (p
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- 2014
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