The effect of an integrated perceived competence and motor intervention in children with developmental coordination disorder.

Background And Aims: Children with DCD have lower self-perceptions and are less physically active than typically developing children. The aim of this quasi-experimental study was to investigate whether an integrated perceived competence and motor intervention affects DCD children's motor performance, self-perceptions, and physical activity compared with a motor intervention only.

Methods And Procedures: The intervention group consisted of 20 children and the care-as-usual group consisted of 11 children, all aged 7-10 years.

The change in perceived motor competence and motor task values during elementary school: A longitudinal cohort study.

Participation in motor activities is essential for social interaction and life satisfaction in children. Self-perceptions and task values have a central position in why children do or do not participate in (motor) activities. Investigating developmental changes in motor self-perceptions and motor task values in elementary school children would provide vital information about their participation in motor activities.

Estimating peak oxygen uptake in adolescents with cystic fibrosis.

Objectives: To predict peak oxygen uptake (VO2 peak) from the peak work rate (W peak) obtained during a cycle ergometry test using the Godfrey protocol in adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF), and assess the accuracy of the model for prognostication clustering.

Methods: Out of our database of anthropometric, spirometric and maximal exercise data from adolescents with CF (N=363; 140 girls and 223 boys; age 14.77 ± 1.

The Steep Ramp Test in Dutch white children and adolescents: age- and sex-related normative values.

Background: The Steep Ramp Test (SRT), a feasible, reliable, and valid exercise test on a cycle ergometer, may be more appealing for use in children in daily clinical practice than the traditional cardiopulmonary exercise test because of its short duration, its resemblance to children's daily activity patterns, and the fact that it does not require respiratory gas analysis.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to provide sex- and age-related normative values for SRT performance in Dutch white children and adolescents who were healthy and 8 to 19 years old.

Design: This was a cross-sectional, observational study.

Prediction of gross motor development and independent walking in infants born very preterm using the Test of Infant Motor Performance and the Alberta Infant Motor Scale.

Background: One objective of a neonatal follow-up program is to examine and predict gross motor outcome of infants born preterm.

Aims: To assess the concurrent validity of the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP) and the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS), the ability to predict gross motor outcome around 15 months corrected age (CA), and to explore factors associated with the age of independent walking.

Methods: 95 infants, born at a gestational age <30 weeks, were assessed around 3, 6 and 15 months CA.

Clinical course of asymmetric motor performance and deformational plagiocephaly in very preterm infants.

Objectives: To describe the clinical courses of positional preference and deformational plagiocephaly up to 6 months corrected age (CA) in infants born at gestational age <30 weeks or birth weight <1000 g, and to explore predictive factors for the persistence of these phenomena.

Study Design: A total of 120 infants were examined 3 times each. The presence of deformational plagiocephaly and a score of 0-6 on an asymmetry performance scale served as outcome measures at 6 months CA.

Measurement of clinically relevant functional health perceptions in patients with whiplash-associated disorders: the development of the whiplash specific activity and participation list (WAL).

Purpose: The International Classification of Human Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) provides insight into functional health status in patients with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD). In the assessment of functional limitations in patients with WAD, there are several condition-specific questionnaires available. Estimation of the true relationship between the separate constructs of the ICF is only possible if the items of the salient questionnaires measure exactly the constructs of interest, while not simultaneously measuring other constructs of the model.

Content validity of the Dutch version of the Neck Bournemouth Questionnaire.

Objective: Mechanical neck pain is a common human phenomenon. In most cases, no patho-anatomical lesion can be identified with the limitations of current radiological imaging. Therefore it is preferable to assess patients with neck pain with a focus on functioning and health, within a biopsychosocial model.

The steep ramp test in healthy children and adolescents: reliability and validity.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the steep ramp test (SRT), a feasible, maximal exercise test on a cycle ergometer that does not require the use of respiratory gas analysis, in healthy children and adolescents.

Methods: Seventy-five children were randomly divided in a reliability group (n = 37, 17 boys and 20 girls; mean ± SD age = 13.86 ± 3.

Active head lifting from supine in early infancy: an indicator for non-optimal cognitive outcome in late infancy.

Aim: To explore whether active head lifting from supine (AHLS) in early infancy is associated with cognitive outcome in the second year of life.

Method: The presence of AHLS was always recorded in the notes of infants admitted to our tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. Random sampling was used to pair infants with AHLS with two comparison infants without AHLS whose sex, gestational age, birth year (1993-2009), time of assessment, and developmental test (Griffiths Mental Development Scales, Mental Scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II, or cognitive subtest of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-III) were comparable.

Prevalence and predictors of idiopathic asymmetry in infants born preterm.

Background: An idiopathic asymmetry in posture of the head is recognized as a risk factor to develop a deformational plagiocephaly (DP). In our neonatal follow-up clinic, an IA is often observed in infants born preterm at term-equivalent age (TEA).

Aims: To explore (1) the prevalence of an idiopathic asymmetry in 192 infants (gestational age ≤32.

Decreasing incidence and severity of cerebral palsy in prematurely born children.

Objective: To examine incidence and severity of cerebral palsy (CP), and associated factors among preterm survivors (gestational age <34 weeks), admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit from 1990-2005.

Study Design: Eighteen antenatal, perinatal and postnatal factors were analyzed. The cohort was divided in four birth periods: 1990-1993 (n=661), 1994-1997 (n=726), 1998-2001 (n=723), and 2002-2005 (n=850).

Supramaximal verification of peak oxygen uptake in adolescents with cystic fibrosis.

Purpose: To study whether peak oxygen uptake ((Equation is included in full-text article VO₂ peak), attained in traditional cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF), could be verified by a supramaximal exercise test.

Methods: Sixteen adolescents with CF (forced expiratory volume in 1 second as % of predicted [range, 45%-117%]) volunteered and successively performed CPET and a supramaximal test (Steep Ramp Test [SRT] protocol).

Results: Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and the SRT resulted in comparable cardiorespiratory peak values.

The Utrecht approach to exercise in chronic childhood conditions: the decade in review.

Purpose: To summarize and discuss current evidence and understanding of clinical pediatric exercise physiology focusing on the work the research group at Utrecht and others have performed in the last decade in a variety of chronic childhood conditions as a continuation of the legacy of Dr Bar-Or.

Key Points: The report discusses current research findings on the cardiopulmonary exercise performance of children (and adolescents) with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, osteogenesis imperfecta, achondroplasia, hemophilia, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, and childhood cancer. Exercise recommendations and contraindications are provided for each condition.

Reproducibility of maximal and submaximal exercise testing in "normal ambulatory" and "community ambulatory" children and adolescents with spina bifida: which is best for the evaluation and application of exercise training?

Background: With emerging interest in exercise and lifestyle interventions for children and adolescents with spina bifida, there is a need for appropriate measurements in exercise testing.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess both reliability and agreement of maximal and submaximal exercise measures in "normal ambulatory" and "community ambulatory" children and adolescents with spina bifida.

Design: This was a reproducibility study.

Oxygen uptake efficiency slope in healthy children.

The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics of the submaximal Oxygen Uptake Efficiency Slope (OUES) in a healthy pediatric population. Bicycle ergometry exercise tests with gas-analyses were performed in 46 healthy children aged 7-17 years. Maximal OUES, submaximal OUES, VO(2)peak, V(E)peak, and ventilatory threshold (VT) were determined.

The oxygen uptake efficiency slope: what do we know?

Purpose: To summarize what is currently known about the oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES) as an objective and independent submaximal measure of cardiorespiratory fitness in health and disease.

Methods: A literature search was performed within the following electronic databases--PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Scopus, and MEDLINE--using the search terms "OUES," "oxygen uptake efficiency slope," and "ventilatory efficiency." The search identified 51 articles.

Exercise stress testing in children with metabolic or neuromuscular disorders.

The role of exercise as a diagnostic or therapeutic tool in patients with a metabolic disease (MD) or neuromuscular disorder (NMD) is relatively underresearched. In this paper we describe the metabolic profiles during exercise in 13 children (9 boys, 4 girls, age 5-15 yrs) with a diagnosed MD or NMD. Graded cardiopulmonary exercise tests and/or a 90-min prolonged submaximal exercise test were performed.

Can peak work rate predict peak oxygen uptake in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis?

Objective: To examine whether peak work rate (W(peak)) can predict peak oxygen uptake (VO(2peak)) in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).

Methods: Ninety-one patients with JIA with a mean +/- SD age of 11.4 +/- 2.

The Neck Bournemouth Questionnaire cross-cultural adaptation into Dutch and evaluation of its psychometric properties in a population with subacute and chronic whiplash associated disorders.

Study Design: Cross-cultural adaptation of an outcome questionnaire.

Objective: The aim of the study was to cross-culturally adapt the Neck Bournemouth Questionnaire (NBQ) for the Dutch language in a population of people with subacute and chronic whiplash associated disorders (WAD), and to assess its psychometric qualities.

Summary Of Background Data: The NBQ covers the salient dimensions of the biopsychosocial model of pain, and has been shown to be reliable, valid, and responsive to clinically significant change in patients with non specific neck pain.

Patients with chronic whiplash-associated disorders: relationship between clinical and psychological factors and functional health status.

Objectives: To examine the relative contribution of cervical impairments and psychosocial factors to perceived disability among people with chronic whiplash-associated disorders.

Design: A total of 86 patients with chronic whiplash-associated disorders participated in this observational, cross-sectional study. All patients were presented to outpatient physical therapy clinics.