Exploring Objects With Feet Advances Movement in Infants Born Preterm: A Randomized Controlled Trial | Zendy

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Exploring Objects With Feet Advances Movement in Infants Born Preterm: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Author(s) -

Jill C. Heathcock,

James C. Galloway

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

physical therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1538-6724

pISSN - 0031-9023

DOI - 10.2522/ptj.20080278

Subject(s) - medicine , randomized controlled trial , population , foot (prosody) , physical therapy , gestational age , physical medicine and rehabilitation , pediatrics , pregnancy , surgery , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health , biology , genetics

Previous work has shown that full-term infants who were healthy contacted a toy with their feet several weeks before they did so with their hands and that movement training advanced feet reaching. Certain populations of preterm infants are delayed in hand reaching; however, feet reaching has not been investigated in any preterm population.

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