Behavior During Tethered Kicking in Infants With Periventricular Brain Injury

Suzann K. Campbell, Whitney Cole, Kara Boynewicz, Laura A. Zawacki, April Clark, Deborah Gaebler-Spira, Raye-Ann deRegnier, Maxine M. Kuroda, Dipti Kale, Michele Bulanda, Sangeetha Madhavan
2015 Pediatric Physical Therapy  
Purpose-Describe behavior of children with periventricular brain injury (PBI) in a tetheredkicking intervention. Methods-Sixteen infants with PBI were randomly assigned to exercise or no-training in a longitudinal pilot study. Frequency of leg movements and inter-limb coordination were described from videos at 2 and 4 months corrected age (CA).
doi:10.1097/pep.0000000000000173 pmid:26397087 pmcid:PMC4703037 fatcat:uvs43egp4fcotmbgvyge2ez6e4