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• Improving gait in cerebral palsy : effects of a combined strength, flexibility and gait training Intervention on lower limb gait kinematics and kinetics in children and young adults with spastic cerebral palsy 

  Thamm, Antonia (2021)

  INTRODUCTION. Walking ability is a fundamental skill enabling participation and independence. For people with cerebral palsy (CP) gait can be impaired due to altered musculoskeletal development resulting from a lesion of ...

• Exercise intervention protocol in children and young adults with cerebral palsy : the effects of strength, flexibility and gait training on physical performance, neuromuscular mechanisms and cardiometabolic risk factors (EXECP) 

  Valadão, Pedro; Piitulainen, Harri; Haapala, Eero A.; Parviainen, Tiina; Avela, Janne; Finni, Taija (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)

  Background Individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) have problems in everyday tasks such as walking and climbing stairs due to a combination of neuromuscular impairments such as spasticity, muscle weakness, reduced joint ...

• Effects of multicomponent exercise intervention on cardiometabolic risk factors in children and young adults with cerebral palsy : a multiple-baseline trial 

  Savikangas, Tiina; Valadão, Pedro; Haapala, Eero A.; Finni, Taija (BioMed Central, 2024)

  Background Adults with cerebral palsy (CP) have a high risk of cardiometabolic diseases. It is unknown whether this risk is elevated in young people with CP and whether exercise can reduce this risk. Therefore, we ...

• Effects of cognitive and motor dual-task on spatiotemporal gait parameters in children and adolescents with Cerebral Palsy 

  Haakana, P.; Nurminen, J.; Kulmala, J.P.; Niemelä, T.; Marttinen Rossi, E.; Mäenpää, H.; Piitulainen, H. (Elsevier BV, 2020)

  Cerebral Palsy (CP) causes impairments in gait1. These impairments can be further emphasized if attention is directed to concurrent motor and/or cognitive tasks during gait. There is little evidence on how strong the ...

• Effects of an Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention on Children’s Quality of Life 

  Sairanen, Essi; Lappalainen, Raimo; Lappalainen, Päivi; Hiltunen, Arto (Springer, 2022)

  The present study examined if an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)–based online intervention for parents had indirect effects on their children’s quality of life mediated by changes in parental well-being, psychological ...