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Relationship of ankle strength and hypermobility to squatting skills of children with Down syndrome.
Phys Ther
; 65(11): 1658-61, 1985 Nov.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2932745
RESUMO
We used ankle goniometric and force measures to determine the relative contribution of hypermobility and strength to heels-down squatting (HDS) in four groups: eight children with Down syndrome, eight hypermobile children, six retarded children, and seven children with normal development. Analysis of variance and across group correlations revealed force as a major but not sole contributor to HDS; hypermobility was found not to have significant influence. Heels-down squatting may be a compensatory mechanism resulting from underdeveloped balance or irregular activation of agonist-antagonist relations around the ankle joint.