Journal article
Stability and decline in gross motor function among children and youth with cerebral palsy aged 2 to 21 years
Abstract
This paper reports the construction of gross motor development curves for children and youth with cerebral palsy (CP) in order to assess whether function is lost during adolescence. We followed children previously enrolled in a prospective longitudinal cohort study for an additional 4 years, as they entered adolescence and young adulthood. The resulting longitudinal dataset comprised 3455 observations of 657 children with CP (369 males, 288 …
Authors
HANNA SE; ROSENBAUM PL; BARTLETT DJ; PALISANO RJ; WALTER SD; AVERY L; RUSSELL DJ
Journal
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 295–302
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
April 2009
DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03196.x
ISSN
0012-1622