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View article: Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in Pediatric Neurorehabilitation
Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Open
Background: Music therapy and music-based interventions are increasingly recognized as valuable adjuncts in pediatric neurorehabilitation, leveraging rhythm, singing, instrument playing, and improvisation to support children with neurologi…
View article: Radiological Screening of Atlantoaxial Instability in Children with Trisomy 21: A Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Recommendations
Radiological Screening of Atlantoaxial Instability in Children with Trisomy 21: A Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Recommendations Open
Background/Objectives: Atlantoaxial instability (AAI) affects approximately 20% of individuals with Trisomy 21. Radiological screening has been debated for decades due to its unclear clinical utility and lack of standardized diagnostic cri…
View article: Learning About Their Condition: The Gradual Path of Young People With Childhood‐Onset Motor Disabilities
Learning About Their Condition: The Gradual Path of Young People With Childhood‐Onset Motor Disabilities Open
Aim Young people with childhood‐onset motor disabilities face unique challenges in understanding and managing their condition. This study explored how they learnt about their condition. Method A descriptive qualitative study was conducted …
View article: Answering the call: co-designing a global trials network for cerebral palsy
Answering the call: co-designing a global trials network for cerebral palsy Open
View article: Do children with cerebral palsy dream of electric legs? The effects of robot‐assisted gait training
Do children with cerebral palsy dream of electric legs? The effects of robot‐assisted gait training Open
This commentary is on the original article by Choi et al. on pages 1096–1105 of this issue.
View article: Physicians’ Self-Perceived Competence on Breaking Bad News to Parents of Children with Neurodisabilities
Physicians’ Self-Perceived Competence on Breaking Bad News to Parents of Children with Neurodisabilities Open
Delivering difficult news to parents of children with neurodisabilities, often involving new diagnoses, prognosis changes, or declines in function or health, presents a complex task. Our aim was to assess physicians’ self-perceived compete…
View article: Changes Induced by Early Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities in Young Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy
Changes Induced by Early Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities in Young Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Open
Importance Intensive interventions are provided to young children with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP), classically focused on the upper extremity despite the frequent impairment of gross motor function. Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy…
View article: Digital technologies for motor rehabilitation in children: protocol for a cross-sectional European survey
Digital technologies for motor rehabilitation in children: protocol for a cross-sectional European survey Open
Introduction Digital technologies can be used as part of paediatric motor rehabilitation to remediate impairment, promote recovery and improve function. However, the uptake of digital technologies in this clinical field may be limited. The…
View article: Telephone Referral to a Paediatric Emergency Department: Why Do Parents Not Show Up?
Telephone Referral to a Paediatric Emergency Department: Why Do Parents Not Show Up? Open
Medical call centres can evaluate and refer patients to an emergency department (ED), a physician or provide guidance for self-care. Our aim was (1) to determine parental adherence to an ED orientation after being referred by the nurses of…
View article: Hand Ownership Is Altered in Teenagers with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy
Hand Ownership Is Altered in Teenagers with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Open
We explored hand ownership in teenagers with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP) compared with typically developing teenagers. Eighteen participants with UCP and 16 control teenagers participated. We used the rubber hand illusion to test hand …
View article: Gait stability in ambulant children with cerebral palsy during dual tasks
Gait stability in ambulant children with cerebral palsy during dual tasks Open
Aim The aim of this cross-sectional study was to measure the effect of dual tasks on gait stability in ambulant children with cerebral palsy (CP) compared to typically developing (TD) children. Methods The children of the CP (n = 20) and T…
View article: Are Clinical Impairments Related to Kinematic Gait Variability in Children and Young Adults With Cerebral Palsy?
Are Clinical Impairments Related to Kinematic Gait Variability in Children and Young Adults With Cerebral Palsy? Open
Intrinsic gait variability (GV), i.e., fluctuations in the regularity of gait patterns between repetitive cycles, is inherent to the sensorimotor system and influenced by factors such as age and pathology. Increased GV is associated with g…
View article: Cohort profile: the Swiss Cerebral Palsy Registry (Swiss-CP-Reg) cohort study
Cohort profile: the Swiss Cerebral Palsy Registry (Swiss-CP-Reg) cohort study Open
BACKGROUND: Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture that follow injuries to the developing brain. It results in motor dysfunction and a wide variety of comorbidities like epilepsy; pain; speech, hearin…
View article: Gait stability in ambulant children with cerebral palsy during dual tasks
Gait stability in ambulant children with cerebral palsy during dual tasks Open
Aim The aim of this prospective cross-sectional study with matched controls was to measure the effect of dual tasks on gait stability in ambulant children with cerebral palsy (CP) compared to typically developing (TD) children. Methods The…
View article: Cohort profile: the Swiss Cerebral Palsy Registry (Swiss-CP-Reg) cohort study
Cohort profile: the Swiss Cerebral Palsy Registry (Swiss-CP-Reg) cohort study Open
SUMMARY BACKGROUND Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture that follows injuries to the developing brain. It results in motor dysfunction and a wide variety of comorbidities like epilepsy, pain, speech…
View article: Parents’ Perspectives on Adaptive Sports in Children with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
Parents’ Perspectives on Adaptive Sports in Children with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Open
Children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) need adaptations to participate in sports and it is more difficult for them to access these activities. We investigated the effects of adaptive sports in children with PI…
View article: Post‐COVID‐19 scientific conferences: virtual becomes the new reality
Post‐COVID‐19 scientific conferences: virtual becomes the new reality Open
When the World Health Organization first announced the emergence of a mysterious coronavirus-related pneumonia in January 2020, who could anticipate to what extent COVID-19 would go on to affect and transform personal and professional live…
View article: Paediatricians’ Views on Pain in Children with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
Paediatricians’ Views on Pain in Children with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Open
Pain is a frequent issue in children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). Its identification and treatment can prove highly challenging for primary care physicians, mainly because of the children’s limited communica…
View article: Planetary Protection in the New Space Era: Science and Governance
Planetary Protection in the New Space Era: Science and Governance Open
Committee of Space Research’s Planetary Protection Policy is a triumph of technocratic governance in the global sphere. The Policy is produced by a group of scientific experts and subsequently enjoys high regard among the scientific and sp…
View article: Multidimensional Measures of Physical Activity and Their Association with Gross Motor Capacity in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy
Multidimensional Measures of Physical Activity and Their Association with Gross Motor Capacity in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy Open
The current lack of adapted performance metrics leads clinicians to focus on what children with cerebral palsy (CP) do in a clinical setting, despite the ongoing debate on whether capacity (what they do at best) adequately reflects perform…
View article: Interprofessional Collaboration and Involvement of Parents in the Management of Painful Procedures in Newborns
Interprofessional Collaboration and Involvement of Parents in the Management of Painful Procedures in Newborns Open
Introduction: Newborns are subject to many painful procedures. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches alone are not enough, and it is necessary to consider other contributing elements such as the environment, interprofes…
View article: Walking Speed of Children and Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy: Laboratory Versus Daily Life
Walking Speed of Children and Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy: Laboratory Versus Daily Life Open
The purpose of this pilot study was to compare walking speed, an important component of gait, in the laboratory and daily life, in young individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) and with typical development (TD), and to quantify to what extent…
View article: Protocol of changes induced by early Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities (e-HABIT-ILE) in pre-school children with bilateral cerebral palsy: a multisite randomized controlled trial
Protocol of changes induced by early Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities (e-HABIT-ILE) in pre-school children with bilateral cerebral palsy: a multisite randomized controlled trial Open
View article: Functional, neuroplastic and biomechanical changes induced by early Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities (e-HABIT-ILE) in pre-school children with unilateral cerebral palsy: study protocol of a randomized control trial
Functional, neuroplastic and biomechanical changes induced by early Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities (e-HABIT-ILE) in pre-school children with unilateral cerebral palsy: study protocol of a randomized control trial Open
View article: Comparison of gait characteristics between clinical and daily life settings in children with cerebral palsy
Comparison of gait characteristics between clinical and daily life settings in children with cerebral palsy Open
View article: A complex interprofessional intervention to improve the management of painful procedures in neonates
A complex interprofessional intervention to improve the management of painful procedures in neonates Open
During hospitalization, neonates are exposed to a stressful environment and a high number of painful procedures. If pain is not treated adequately, short‐ and long‐term complications may develop. Despite evidence about neonatal pain and av…
View article: A Personalized Approach to Improve Walking Detection in Real-Life Settings: Application to Children with Cerebral Palsy
A Personalized Approach to Improve Walking Detection in Real-Life Settings: Application to Children with Cerebral Palsy Open
Although many methods have been developed to detect walking by using body-worn inertial sensors, their performances decline when gait patterns become abnormal, as seen in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The aim of this study was to eval…
View article: Law, Ethics, and Space: Space Exploration and Environmental Values
Law, Ethics, and Space: Space Exploration and Environmental Values Open
This paper offers an analysis of the ethical values that have accompanied human exploration of space so far, and emphasizes the need to infuse human space activity with new ethical values by means of new and well-constructed legislation. O…
View article: From congenial paralysis to post-early brain injury developmental condition: Where does cerebral palsy actually stand?
From congenial paralysis to post-early brain injury developmental condition: Where does cerebral palsy actually stand? Open
View article: Assessment of bimanual performance in 3-D movement analysis: Validation of a new clinical protocol in children with unilateral cerebral palsy
Assessment of bimanual performance in 3-D movement analysis: Validation of a new clinical protocol in children with unilateral cerebral palsy Open