Giriş ve Amaç: Çalışmamızın amacı, idame kemoterapisi alan akut lenfoblastik lösemili (ALL) çocuklarda motor fonksiyonlar ile yaşam kalitesi günlük aktiviteleri (GYA) arasındaki ilişkinin araştırılmasıydı.
 Gereç Yöntemler: Çalışmamız, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Çocuk Hastanesi’nde gerçekleştirildi. Çalışmaya ALL tanısı kemoterapisine devam eden, 4 15 yaşları çocuklar dahil edildi. Motor fonks...

the purpose of this current study was to investigate the influence of perceptual-motor trainings on motor skills of girls with trainable mental retardation. so 20 girls with trainable mental retardation in the town of marivan welfare organization with the average of 8/3 ±1/11 years and iq of 39/14±6/84 with purposive sampling method were studied. all girls were pretested. then samples based on ...

BACKGROUND The Lililwan Project is the first population-based study to determine Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) prevalence in Australia and was conducted in the remote Fitzroy Valley in North Western Australia. The diagnostic process for FASD requires accurate assessment of gross and fine motor functioning using standardised cut-offs for impairment. The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Moto...

OBJECTIVE Children with fine-motor problems and handwriting difficulties often are referred for occupational therapy. The objective of this study was to test the efficacy of a short-term treatment on the fine-motor and graphomotor skills of first-grade students. METHOD We recruited 52 first-grade students who had scored below the 21st percentile on the Visual-Motor Integration test from schoo...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between motor proficiency and pedometer-determined physical activity in 5-6 year-old children. Participants (n = 232) were randomly recruited and assessed from 30 kindergartens in Northern Greece. Two trained researchers administered the measurements for the assessment of children's motor proficiency by using the BOTMP-SF. Physica...

AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Kinesio Taping (KT) on the body functions and activity of children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD This study was designed as a single-blind, randomized, controlled trial. Thirty children with unilateral spastic CP were randomized and split equally between the KT group (eight males, seven females; mean age 9y [SD ...

OBJECTIVES We tested the hypothesis that daily vitD3 supplementation increases neuromuscular motor skills, jump power, jump energy, muscular force, and muscular strength. METHODS This was a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial of 12-months of oral 7,000 IU/day vitD3 supplementation or placebo among 56 persons living with HIV aged 9-25 years. Neuromuscular motor skills were quan...