Experience with jumping mechanography in children with cerebral palsy.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Jumping mechanography provides robust motor function indicators among healthy children. The aim of the study was to assess the reproducibility and validity of jumping mechanography conducted as single two-legged jump (S2LJ) in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS: 215 S2LJ investigations from a sample of 75 children with CP were eligible for evaluation. For the estimation of the reproducibility, only the baseline set of data per patient were used. Gross motor function was evaluated by the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66). In 135 S2LJ investigations, GMFM-66 was assessed within a week in the same child. This data was used for validity assessment. RESULTS: /mass were also the test parameters with the strongest correlation to the GMFM-66 score (⟩0.7). CONCLUSIONS: /mass showed the strongest correlation with the GMFM-66 score and seem to be the most relevant evaluation criteria.