Upper limb joint coordination preserves hand kinematics after a traumatic brachial plexus injury

L Lustosa, AEL Silva, RP Carvalho… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Traumatic brachial plexus injury (TBPI) causes a sensorimotor deficit in upper
limb (UL) movements. Objective Our aim was to investigate the arm–forearm coordination of …

Spiral drawing deficits in children with prenatal alcohol exposure

RW Simmons, JD Thomas, T Taggart… - Alcohol: Clinical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Empirical investigations reveal that, in comparison to their typically developing peers,
children with histories of prenatal alcohol exposure experience deficits in writing but not …

Upper limb joint coordination acts to preserve hand kinematics after a traumatic brachial plexus injury

L Lustosa, AEL Silva, R de Paula Carvalho, CD Vargas - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Background Traumatic brachial plexus injury (TBPI) causes a sensorimotor deficit in upper
limb (UL) movements. Objective Our aim was to investigate the arm-forearm coordination of …

Analysis of motor characteristics of reaching movements in children with cerebral palsy

LB Bagesteiro, TL Tellini, LE Brown - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Studies confirm that children with cerebral palsy (CwCP) have difficulty with simple,
everyday movements like reaching for objects. Accurate reaching requires that shoulder and …

Planning and Executing Aiming Movements in Middle Childhood

DSV de Oliveira, SR Alouche… - … and Motor Skills, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Harmonious voluntary movements require efficiency in their planning and execution.
Throughout middle childhood structural changes in the central nervous and musculoskeletal …

Using immersive virtual reality to remotely examine performance differences between dominant and non-dominant hands

JO Evans, K Tsaneva-Atanasova, G Buckingham - Virtual Reality, 2023 - Springer
Circle drawing may be a useful task to study upper-limb function in patient populations.
However, previous studies rely on expensive and bulky robotics to measure performance …

Upper limb functional improvement after abdominal drawing-in maneuver on chronic stroke survivors: a crossover study

A Lee - 2024 - roderic.uv.es
Stroke remains a leading cause of long-term disability, with upper limb dysfunction being a
common and debilitating consequence. Effective trunk control plays a crucial role in …