View clinical trials related to Motor Skills Disorders.
Filter by:There is no study in the literature examining the relationship between urinary incontinence and motor symptoms in individuals with stroke. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between urinary incontinence and spasticity, balance and walking, which negatively affect quality of life and functional performance after stroke.
This cross-sectional case-control study aimed to determine whether there is a significant difference in the prevalence of impaired toilet training, LUTS, and functional bowel problems among children diagnosed with DCD and typically developing children (TDC).
This prospective study aimed to detect neuromotor signs early in preschool children suspected of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Preschool children aged 3-5 years old from municipal kindergartens in Thessaloniki participated in this study. The Little DCDQ questionnaire and the BOT-2 (Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency) were used for assessment.
The aim of the study is to examine the effect of VR application on motor, cognitive and sensory-perceptual skills, and activity and participation levels in children with DCD. The hypotheses on which the study proposal is based are as follows: 1. H0: VR application has no effect on motor skills in children with DCD. H1: VR application has an effect on motor skills in children with DCD. 2. H0: VR application has no effect on cognitive skills in children with DCD. H1: VR application has an effect on cognitive skills in children with DCD. 3. H0: VR application has no effect on sensory-perception skills in children with DCD. H1: VR application has an effect on sensory-perception skills in children with DCD. 4. H0: VR application has no effect on the functional independence levels in daily living activities in children with DCD. H1: VR application has an effect on the functional independence levels in daily living activities in children with DCD. 5. H0: VR application has no effect on participation levels in children with DCD. H1: VR application has an effect on participation levels in children with DCD.
The aim of the study is to investigate theory of mind (ToM) in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Dutch-speaking children, who are living in Flanders or The Netherlands (because comparisons will be made with Flemish and Dutch norms), will be included. In addition, children should be six until twelve years old with a DCD diagnosis confirmed by a multidisciplinary team (including a doctor). During the test moment, ToM will be tested by ToM test-R and the motor skills by MABC-2. Beside, the ToM test-R will be filmed, but the child's face not shown. The parent/legal guardian will be asked to complete five online questionnaires (demographic and developmental questionnaire, CVO, SRS-2, SDQ and ToMBC), this can be completed in advance at home or at the test moment (researchers provide a laptop).
One in 60 children have a physical disability that can impact activities and participation. Occupational and physical therapies can be of great benefit, but are costly and difficult to access. Working with children, parents and clinicians, the investigators developed a mixed reality video game, Bootle Blast, which children can play to develop motor skills. Using a 3D sensor, Bootle Blast tracks movements and manipulation of real-life objects. Since 2017, Bootle Blast has been used in clinics by Holland Bloorview, Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital. Home use of Bootle Blast has resulted in positive clinical outcomes for children with cerebral palsy. Bootle Blast is not yet commercially available and has yet to be trialed in "real-world" contexts. To understand real-world implementation, Bootle Blast will be trialed for 14 weeks in the homes of 60 young people (6 to 17 years) with any motor condition that could be addressed by the Bootle Blast system, regardless of their diagnosis. The investigators will assess feasibility (e.g. independent home setup, ability to set/meet self-directed play time goals), enablers/barriers to use, and perceived value. User experience will inform product, training and resource development. The research team combines expertise in engineering design, medicine, physiotherapy, qualitative methods, commercialization, knowledge translation, and includes young people with lived experience.
Stroke is a leading and growing cause of long-term adult disability. Up to 80% of stroke patients have impaired manual dexterity reducing their independence, return to work and quality of life. Cognitive impairment is also common after stroke and growing evidence suggests a cognitive-motor interdependence with relevance for motor recovery. Previous studies show increased cognitive-motor interference (measured in dual-task) in stroke patients and that combining motor and cognitive task training (in a dual-task) may improve motor function above that achieved by single-task training. This project addresses post-stroke dexterity impairment and its relation to dual-task interference, i.e., the decrease in motor performance when performing a concurrent cognitive task. The overall goal is to provide a proof-of-concept for a dual-task interference training protocol post-stroke. We aim to establish therapeutic efficacy of dual-task vs single-task dexterity training in chronic stroke patients.Single-task training involves visuomotor finger force tracking and dual-task has an additional cognitive components including visual distraction and working memory. Training will be done 4 days/week over four weeks (total 16 sessions). Each session will include 20 mins of conventional therapy (stretching, functional exercises) followed by 40 mins motor task training (either single or dual task). This pilot randomized clinical trial will include 40 stroke patients (> 6 months after stroke). Repeated clinical and fine-grained motor measurements will be obtained pre and post intervention and at 3 months follow-up.
The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the developmental level between 1-18 months and gross motor performance in the preschool period in risky infants followed up from a center for early intervention, and to determine the risk of developmental coordination disorder in the preschool period in risky infants.Gross Motor Function Measurement-88 will be applied to children diagnosed with cerebral palsy in the pre-school period to evaluate motor performance, among risky infants evaluated by Alberta Infant Motor Scale between 1-18 months. Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire will be applied to healthy children in order to evaluate the risk of gross motor performance and developmental coordination disorder.
Children in primary school often suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), which may negatively impact their overall well-being. Co-occurring neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) can adversely affect children as well and can cause restrictions in their daily life, especially in their school-environment. The goal of this observational study is to identify the prevalence of LUTS in Flemish primary school children.The main questions it aims to answer are: - How prevalent are LUTS in regular primary education? - Is there a relation with well-being in school environment? - Is there an influence of co-occuring NDDs? Children, parents and teachers will be asked to fill in questionnaires related to this research question.
Patients with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects motor skills and motor learning (APA, 2013), have been reported to manifest rhythmic deficits in handwriting domain, as well as general rhythmic deficits (i.e., regardless handwriting context per se) (Rosenblum & Regev, 2013). Accordingly, children with DCD struggle in tasks like synchronising to an external musical rhythm (in rhythm production tasks) or even in discrimination tasks such as detecting beat deviations, i.e., in rhythm perception tasks (INSERM collective expertise, 2019). These rhythmic deficits which manifest in a variety of tasks and conditions support the hypothesis of a "generalised dysrhythmia" in DCD, according to which the rhythmic deficits - in perceptual tasks and motor production - could have a common source, namely a mechanism devoted to rhythm processing (a cerebral mechanism involved in the perception of rhythm) and independent of the effectors involved and the type of task considered. However, the nature of the relationships between general rhythmic skills (perceptual and motor) and rhythmic abilities when engaged in handwriting movement is largely unknown in DCD. Whether a common source drives these diverse rhythmic deficits remains to explore. If this hypothesis were to be confirmed, this would pave the way for innovative therapeutic tools (e.g., serious games) for training a central rhythmic processing mechanism (rhythm perception), which could positively impact in turn rhythmicity of thandwriting movement in this population.