Biomechanical and functional effects of shoulder kinesio taping® on cerebral palsy children interacting with virtual objects
The reaching of objects is usually practiced by CP children in conventional or Virtual Reality-based therapies to enhance motor skill performance. Recently, Kinesio Taping® method has been studied to increase mechanical stability and improve functional movement of the upper limb; however, its influe...
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Published in | Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 676 - 684 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
England
Taylor & Francis
01.05.2019
Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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Summary: | The reaching of objects is usually practiced by CP children in conventional or Virtual Reality-based therapies to enhance motor skill performance. Recently, Kinesio Taping® method has been studied to increase mechanical stability and improve functional movement of the upper limb; however, its influence on CP children´s upper limb motion has been rarely quantified due to lack of sensory measurement. Therefore, in this paper, we evaluate the biomechanical and functional effects of applying shoulder Kinesio Taping® on CP children in the reaching-transporting of virtual objects, by using a low-cost tracking device, exact robust differentiation of data and a simple nonlinear biomechanical dynamic model of the trunk and arm. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1025-5842 1476-8259 |
DOI: | 10.1080/10255842.2019.1580361 |