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Effect of Baby Walkers on the Development of Locomotor Skills in Infants

Author(s) -

A. N. Sharov,

A.V. Krivova

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

n n priorov journal of traumatology and orthopedics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2658-6738

pISSN - 0869-8678

DOI - 10.17816/vto201623340-46

Subject(s) - pediatrics , medicine , cohort , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physical therapy , psychology , developmental psychology

A retrospective cohort study of the effect of baby walkers on the locomotor skills in children was performed. The study included 358 infants aged 11 to 15 months. To simplify the calculation we introduced the “walkers-day” index that was equal to 1 hour of walkers use per day for 1 month. The delay of non-assisted locomotion for 0.33 months (10.04 days) was observed in all walkers’ users and for 0.43 months in babies who used walkers within the interval of 1-21 “walkers-days”. It was stated that use of walkers was a risk factor of walking inability at the age of 11-12 months (Pearson coefficient (C) = 0.110, p

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