The Interaction Between Executive Attention and Postural Control in Dual-Task Conditions: Children With Cerebral Palsy Dinah S. Reilly, PhD, PT, Marjorie H. Woollacott, PhD, Paul van Donkelaar, PhD, Sandra Saavedra, MS, PT Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Volume 89, Issue 5, Pages 834-842 (May 2008) DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.10.023 Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Cognitive task: temporal sequence of the visual working memory task presentation in seconds and milliseconds. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 834-842DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.10.023) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Group means ±1 SD of COP displacement in (A) the AP range and (B) RMS AP velocity. Abbreviations: ACP, ataxic CP; D, dual; NS, narrow stance; S, single; SCP, spastic CP; WS, wide stance. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 834-842DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.10.023) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Group means ±1 SD of COP displacement in (A) the ML range and (B) RMS ML velocity. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 834-842DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.10.023) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Individual COP tracings (in meters) in 1 block of trials (38s), in narrow stance, single- versus dual-task condition in: (A) typically developing older child; (B) typically developing young child; (C) child with spastic cerebral palsy; and (D) child with ataxic cerebral palsy. NOTE. The x axis is the AP direction; the y axis is the ML direction. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 834-842DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.10.023) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions
Fig 5 Titration curve for (A) number of colored shapes recalled with a 70% accuracy rate: typically developing older children (), typically developing young children (), and children with CP (); and (B) children with spastic CP () and children with ataxic CP (). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2008 89, 834-842DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2007.10.023) Copyright © 2008 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions