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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1905</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>MOTOR ABILITIES AND ASSOCIATED IMPAIRMENTS IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>V.</surname><given-names>Vijesh P.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sukumaran</surname><given-names>P. S.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>44</fpage><lpage>57</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Objectives:- In children with cerebral palsy, the gross motor and fine motor abilities are&#13;
impaired at different levels due to the lesions in the developing brain. Even though the damage primarily affects the loco-motor system, the presence of associated impairments are common in these children. For the successful rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy, the assessment of gross motor and fine motor abilities are very important specifically in planning the short term and long term goals. The objective of the study is to find out the gross motor and fine motor abilities of these children and how these are correlated with each other and also with the associate impairments. Methods:-100 children with cerebral palsy aged between 6-14 years who attended special schools were assessed using gross motor classification system (GMFCS) and fine motor ability classification system (MACS). The presence of associated impairments were collected from the school records of these children. Results:- Within the framework of traditional classification of cerebral palsy, these children had different levels of gross motor and fine motor abilities as measured by GMFCS and MACS. The study also revealed that there is a significant positive correlation between the gross motor and fine motor abilities of these children (rho=0.56, p__ampersandsignlt;0.01). Also, it was evident that as the gross motor and fine motor abilities reduced they had more associated impairments. Conclusions:-The gross motor and fine motor abilities and the presence of associated impairments are the key areas that have to be assessed while evaluating the child with cerebral palsy. These two abilities are correlated with each other and also the associated impairments are more in those children who had limited gross motor and fine motor abilities.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Gross motor ability</kwd><kwd> fine motor ability</kwd><kwd> cerebral palsy</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
