Objective evaluation of muscle strength in infants with hypotonia and muscle weakness

Autor: J. Bart Staal, Leo A. van Vlimmeren, Barto J. Otten, Linda Reus, Maria W.G. Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Anjo J.W.M. Janssen, Ben Pelzer
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
Male
congenital
hereditary
and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
Muscle Strength Dynamometer
medicine.medical_specialty
Quality of nursing and allied health care [NCEBP 6]
Physical fitness
Physical strength
Inequality
cohesion and modernization
Child Development
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Ongelijkheid
cohesie en modernisering
Muscle Strength
Human Movement & Fatigue [NCEBP 10]
NCEBP 6 - Quality of nursing and allied health care DCN PAC - Perception action and control
Muscle Weakness
business.industry
Infant
Reproducibility of Results
Muscle weakness
Hypotonia
Clinical Psychology
Motor delay
Convergent validity
Case-Control Studies
Child
Preschool
Linear Models
Physical therapy
Muscle strength
Muscle Hypotonia
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
business
Prader-Willi Syndrome
Zdroj: Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 1160-1169
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 4, pp. 1160-1169
ISSN: 0891-4222
Popis: Contains fulltext : 118894.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) The clinical evaluation of an infant with motor delay, muscle weakness, and/or hypotonia would improve considerably if muscle strength could be measured objectively and normal reference values were available. The authors developed a method to measure muscle strength in infants and tested 81 typically developing infants, 6-36 months of age, and 17 infants with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) aged 24 months. The inter-rater reliability of the measurement method was good (ICC=.84) and the convergent validity was confirmed by high Pearson's correlations between muscle strength, age, height, and weight (r=.79-.85). A multiple linear regression model was developed to predict muscle strength based on age, height, and weight, explaining 73% of the variance in muscle strength. In infants with PWS, muscle strength was significantly decreased. Pearson's correlations showed that infants with PWS in which muscle strength was more severely affected also had a larger motor developmental delay (r=.75). 10 p.
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