Children who fall often (upper limbs and trunk chain)

We focus on the relationship between children's arm movements and inner thigh walking!

During walking, it is thought that the excitability of the neural pathways between the limbs through spinal cord intrinsic neurons is activated.
These results suggest that upper limb movement, which seems to have a low direct contribution to gait movement, may actually contribute to the expression of gait motor output.

*Children's inner thigh walking training video↓

Upper Limb and Trunk in Children: Chain Functional Neurotraining



Bibliography:
Q. L. Xiong et al., “Motor Skill Development Alters Kinematics and Co-Activation Between Flexors and Extensors of Limbs in Human Infant Crawling,” in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 780-787, April 2018, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2017.2785821.

Official Inner Thigh Gait Research Center Site Representative Naoaki Kizu