Aim Night‐time postural equipment (NTPE) can prevent hip subluxation in children with
severe motor disorders (SMD s). However, it is unclear how it affects ventilatory function. The
aims of the study were to determine how NTPE use affects ventilatory function and to
compare night‐to‐night variability of ventilatory function in children with SMD s and typically
developing healthy children. Method Fifteen NTPE users (six males, nine females), aged 1
to 19 years (mean age 8y 7mo) alternated sleep condition between NTPE and sleeping …

… Consider a child with spastic hemiplegia whose typical posture includes the affected
lower extremity in hip flexion, adduction, internal rotation, knee flexion, and ankle
plantarflexion and who has full range of motion. This … We are currently using the
SAROMM as one of many measures for which we aim to develop reference centile curves,
similar to what we have done for the Gross Motor Function Measure,5 to assist clinicians in
establishing whether an individual child is doing ‘as expected’, ‘better than expected’, or ‘more …