Overweight and cardiometabolic risk from infancy to adolescence: effect of early motor development, physical activity and fitness Lectoraatsoverleg 20 juni 2013 Instituut voor Sportstudies Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Presentatie gehouden tijdens het UMCG Epidemiology Congress op 31 mei 2013

Background information: Slumped sitting is associated with decreased back muscle activity and proprioception disturbances. An active posture is advocated to prevent those effects. Altered muscle activation patterns, disturbed proprioception and multifidus atrophy are commonly seen in people with low …

Are sucking skills in a specific period (in weeks post menstrual age, PMA) associated with an abnormal development at age 2? Do preterm infants with abnormal sucking patterns in the early post term period differ in motor skills at age 5 from preterm infants with normal sucking patterns in the same early …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of training with the Wii-balance board on balance and balance-related skills of children with poor motor performance. Twenty-nine children (23 boys, 6 girls; aged 7–12 years) participated in this study and were randomly assigned to an experimental …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between sucking patterns and the quality of fidgety movements in preterm infants. STUDY DESIGN: We studied the sucking patterns and fidgety movements of 44 preterm infants (gestational age <35 weeks) longitudinally from 34 weeks' postmenstrual age up to 14 weeks …

This study investigated temporal changes in movement strategy and performance during fatiguing short-cycle work. Eighteen participants performed six 7-min work blocks with repetitive reaching movements at 0.5 Hz, each followed by a 5.5-min rest break for a total duration of 1 h. Electromyography (EMG) …

Doelstelling Dit onderzoek is opgezet om meer te weten te komen over de motorische ontwikkeling bij Ernstig Meervoudig Beperkte (EMB) kinderen. De vraagstelling van dit onderzoek is: "Hoe is de mobiliteitsontwikkeling bij kinderen met een Ernstige Meervoudige Beperking vergeleken met normscores van gezonde …

To report on the development and psychometric evaluation of the Radboud Oral Motor Inventory for Parkinsons Disease (ROMP), a newly developed patient-rated assessment of speech, swallowing, and saliva control in patients with Parkinsons disease (PD). To evaluate reproducibility, 60 patients completed …

Volgens internationale schattingen is de prevalentie van de diagnose Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) minstens 6% voor kinderen in de leeftijd van 5 tot 11 jaar (1). De American Psychiatric Association (APA) heeft DCD gedefinieerd als “The essential feature of DCD is a marked impairment in the …