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Upper Extremity Movement Pathology in Functional Tasks

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Children with unilateral cerebral palsy (uCP) typically present with largely divergent upper extremity sensorimotor impairments that impact on their independence and quality of life. While clinical assessment tools have vastly contributed to our understanding of arm and hand problems in children with uCP, the availability of three-dimensional movement analysis has allowed a more detailed and objective assessment of upper extremity movement pathology in these children. This chapter firstly discusses the typical and atypical development of arm and hand function. The second part provides an overview of measurement protocols and outcome parameters and summarizes upper extremity movement pathology in children with uCP.

Lisa Mailleux and Cristina Simon-Martinez contributed equally to this work.

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    1. Research Group for Neuromotor Rehabilitation, KU Leuven, O&N IV, Herestraat 49, box 1510, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

      Lisa Mailleux, Cristina Simon-Martinez & Hilde Feys

    2. Neural Control of Movement Lab, ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

      Ellen Jaspers

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    1. Institut for Biomechanics und Orthopedic, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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    2. Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

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    3. McIntosh Consultancy and Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    5. C-Motion Inc., Germantown, USA

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    6. Movement Analysis Laboratory, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery; Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Spinal Cord Injury;Heidelberg University Hospital, Schlierbacher Landstr. 200a, 69118, Heidelberg, Germany

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    Mailleux, L., Simon-Martinez, C., Feys, H., Jaspers, E. (2018). Upper Extremity Movement Pathology in Functional Tasks. In: Handbook of Human Motion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14418-4_57

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