Clinical Biomechanics, 80, 105149p. (2020) DOI:10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2020.105149
Children and adolescents with cerebral palsy flexibly adapt grip control in response to variable task demands
S. Schwab, F. Grover, D. Abney, P. L. Silva, M. A. RileyBackground: Children and adolescents with cerebral palsy demonstrate impairments in grip control with associated limitations in functional grasp. Previous work in cerebral palsy has focused on grip control using relatively predictable task demands, a feature which may limit generalizability of those study results in light of recent evidence in typically developing adults suggesting that grip control strategies are task-dependent. The purpose of this study was to determine whether and how varying upper extremity task demands affect grip control in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. Methods: Children and adolescents with mild spastic cerebral palsy (n
