Structure of variability in development
- Conditions
- motor development, coordination, typically developing children, variability, exploration
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON22576
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Medical Center Groningen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 75
Only healthy children between five and ten years of age and healthy adults will be included in the experiment. Participants are considered eligible for inclusion in the case of absence of any upper or lower extremity pain or musculoskeletal impairments negatively affecting task performance. Furthermore participants need to be right dominant for the upper extremity and sign an informed consent.
Children will be excluded when motor skill abilities, established by the Movement ABC-2 test, are below norms for age.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method -kinematic measures of the reaching movement of the tip of the index finger<br /><br>-joint ranges of motion <br /><br>-uncontrolled manifold analyses
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Anthropometric data (body length, arm length and weight)<br /><br>Movement-ABC test