TITLE:
Early Movement Monitoring Assessment in Greek Full-Term and Preterm Infants with Normal and Low Birth Weight: Pilot Study
AUTHORS:
Niki Karageorgi, Sofia Charitou, Katerina Asonitou, Dimitra Koutsouki
KEYWORDS:
Early Movement Monitoring Assessment, Motor Development, Infants, Monitoring, Full-Term Infants, Pre-Term Infants
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Physical Education,
Vol.11 No.2,
May
28,
2021
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 (