Early Intensive Postural and Movement Training Advances Head Control in Very Young Infants

Early intensive postural and movement training advances head control in very young infants.

BACKGROUND Daily experiences are thought to play an important role in motor development during infancy. There are limited studies on the effect of postural and movement experiences on head control. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to quantify the effects of postural and movement experiences on head control through a comprehensive set of measurements beginning when infants were 1 month ...

Intensive training in young athletes.

An increasing number of children take part in organized sporting activities, undergoing intensive training and high level competition from an early age. Although intensive training in children may foster health benefits, many are injured as a result of training, often quite seriously. This paper reviews some of the areas of research dealing with intensively trained young athletes, and focuses o...

Head movement control in visually guided tasks: Postural goal and optimality

This work investigates the control of horizontal head movements in the context of unconstrained visually guided head and arm/finger aiming tasks. In a first experiment, the head was free to move while gaze was directed at randomly presented eccentric targets distributed horizontally (0 degrees-120 degrees) at eye level. In a second experiment, the horizontal head orientation was constrained to ...

Early aggressive nutrition in very preterm infants.

Despite numerous advances in the nutrition of preterm infants, the increasing survival at lower birth weights is resulting in a new frontier of extrauterine nutritional support of these vulnerable infants. The extremely low birth weight infant has endogenous energy to maintain energy balance for only 3-4 days without an exogenous energy supply. Nevertheless, many clinicians are still hesitant t...

Controversies about intensive training in young athletes.