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WALKING PATTERNS IN DOWN'S SYNDROME
Author(s) -
Parker A. W.,
Bronks R.,
Snyder C. W.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1986.tb01327.x
Subject(s) - physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychology , down syndrome , medicine , psychiatry
Cinematographic analysis techniques were used to evaluate the walking patterns of 10 5-year-old Down's syndrome (DS) children (trisomy 21). Comparison with similar analyses of non-handicapped children revealed a wide developmental variability in the walking of DS children and retardation in some temporal components. The DS children adopted a more flexed posture of the hip and knee joints, and increased fluctuation of ankle movement during the walking cycle. The data suggest a wide continuum of locomotor development which may be a function of the degree of impairment of associated neuromuscular mechanisms.