Abstract
Objective: To investigate if Early Movement Monitoring Assessment (EMMA) is a sesitive tool to the developmental changes across time, in frequency of total movements in Greek full term and preterm infants with normal and low birth weight. Methods: EMMA and Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) were performed on Greek infants, who were born full-term and pre-term (age corrected), with normal or low birth weight. Specifically, 11 full-term infants, 4 preterm infants with normal birth weight (>2500 gr) and 5 preterm infants with low birth weight (
Highlights
Neuronal development is continuously changing during the formative years of infancy and toddlerhood (Hadders-Algra, 2001)
Correlation analysis was conducted between the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) and the Early Movement Monitoring Assessment (EMMA) at the age groups 6 - 12 months and 12.1 - 18 months old for preterm infants, as this group had the suitable age for the AIMS assessment
This is quite useful as when a lag is observed, intervention programs should be reconsidered. This pilot study was designed to examine if EMMA is sensitive to track the rate of total movements over time in Greek infants who were full-term, preterm with normal birth weight and preterm with low birth weight
Summary
Neuronal development is continuously changing during the formative years of infancy and toddlerhood (Hadders-Algra, 2001). Movement skills development in infancy is the most rapid than any other time during life (Gabbard, 2012). It is a fact that premature infants are at risk of developing neuro-developmental disorders due to the immature brain development, which is caused by many factors during the prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal period (Arpino et al, 2010; Volpe, 2009). Progress monitoring of motor function in infants can report documentation of established skills in the right time and the kind of intervention which is substantial for developing the following key skills (Leitschuh, Harring, & Dunn, 2014)
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