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Sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame
BACKGROUND: Stepping over an obstacle is a kind of compound movement that makes walking more difficult, especially for preschool children. This study examines sex and age-level differences in walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame. METHODS: The participants included 324 healthy pres...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3384228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22738328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1880-6805-31-8 |
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author | Kasuga, Kosho Demura, Shin-ichi Aoki, Hiroki Shin, Sohee Sugiura, Hiroki Uchida, Yu |
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description | BACKGROUND: Stepping over an obstacle is a kind of compound movement that makes walking more difficult, especially for preschool children. This study examines sex and age-level differences in walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame. METHODS: The participants included 324 healthy preschool children: four-year-old boys (51) and girls (51), five-year-old boys (50) and girls (60), and six-year-old boys (62) and girls (50). A 5 cm- or 10 cm-high obstacle (depth 11.5 cm, width 23.5 cm) was set at the halfway point of a 200 cm × 10 cm walking course. RESULTS: The participants walked to the end of the course and back as fast as possible under three conditions: no obstacle, low obstacle and high obstacle. Walking time showed age-level differences in all conditions, but there were no differences in sex. Age levels were divided into two groups, with one group within the first six months of their birthday, and the second group within the last six months of that year. Walking time for children in the first half of their fourth year was longer than that of the five- and six-year-old children. In addition, for children in the last half of their fourth year, walking time was longer than both sexes in the last half of their fifth and sixth years. The children in the latter half of their fifth year had a longer walking time in the high obstacle condition than those in the last half of their sixth year. In the four-year-old participants, walking time was shorter with no obstacles than with a high obstacle frame. CONCLUSIONS: In the above data, obstacle course walking time does not show a gender difference, except that the four-year-old participants needed longer than the five- and six-year-old children. Setting the obstacle 10 cm high also produced a different walking time in the five- and six-year-old participants. The high obstacle step test (10 cm) best evaluated the dynamic balance of preschool children. |
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spelling | pubmed-33842282012-06-28 Sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame Kasuga, Kosho Demura, Shin-ichi Aoki, Hiroki Shin, Sohee Sugiura, Hiroki Uchida, Yu J Physiol Anthropol Original Article BACKGROUND: Stepping over an obstacle is a kind of compound movement that makes walking more difficult, especially for preschool children. This study examines sex and age-level differences in walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame. METHODS: The participants included 324 healthy preschool children: four-year-old boys (51) and girls (51), five-year-old boys (50) and girls (60), and six-year-old boys (62) and girls (50). A 5 cm- or 10 cm-high obstacle (depth 11.5 cm, width 23.5 cm) was set at the halfway point of a 200 cm × 10 cm walking course. RESULTS: The participants walked to the end of the course and back as fast as possible under three conditions: no obstacle, low obstacle and high obstacle. Walking time showed age-level differences in all conditions, but there were no differences in sex. Age levels were divided into two groups, with one group within the first six months of their birthday, and the second group within the last six months of that year. Walking time for children in the first half of their fourth year was longer than that of the five- and six-year-old children. In addition, for children in the last half of their fourth year, walking time was longer than both sexes in the last half of their fifth and sixth years. The children in the latter half of their fifth year had a longer walking time in the high obstacle condition than those in the last half of their sixth year. In the four-year-old participants, walking time was shorter with no obstacles than with a high obstacle frame. CONCLUSIONS: In the above data, obstacle course walking time does not show a gender difference, except that the four-year-old participants needed longer than the five- and six-year-old children. Setting the obstacle 10 cm high also produced a different walking time in the five- and six-year-old participants. The high obstacle step test (10 cm) best evaluated the dynamic balance of preschool children. BioMed Central 2012-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3384228/ /pubmed/22738328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1880-6805-31-8 Text en Copyright ©2012 Kasuga et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Kasuga, Kosho Demura, Shin-ichi Aoki, Hiroki Shin, Sohee Sugiura, Hiroki Uchida, Yu Sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame |
title | Sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame |
title_full | Sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame |
title_fullStr | Sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame |
title_full_unstemmed | Sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame |
title_short | Sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame |
title_sort | sex and age-level differences of walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3384228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22738328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1880-6805-31-8 |
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