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Passive Tactile Stimulation Effects on the Muscle Tone of Hypotonic, Developmentally Delayed Young Children
- Source :
- Perceptual and Motor Skills. 71:951-954
- Publication Year :
- 1990
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1990.
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Abstract
- A pilot study was performed with 13 children, 1 to 4 yr. of age, to explore an heretofore uninvestigated area. The effect of passive tactile stimulation was an increase in muscle activation and hence the muscle tone of 13 hypotonic, develop-mentally delayed children.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Surface Properties
Developmental Disabilities
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Electromyography
Audiology
Arousal
Muscle tone
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Physical Therapy Modalities
Sensory stimulation therapy
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
Muscle Tonus
Infant
050301 education
Muscle activation
Sensory Systems
medicine.anatomical_structure
Touch
Child, Preschool
Physical therapy
Muscle Hypotonia
Tonicity
Female
Down Syndrome
Psychology
0503 education
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1558688X and 00315125
- Volume :
- 71
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....da64d3283f870ae146d5400d582f97df