Resumen de Toddlers body sway during the performance of a dynamic task
Lilian Teresa Bucken Gobbi, Erlane Aguiar Feitosa
In order to verify the body oscillation of one-year old children while performing a dynamic and self-initiated task, three children were invited to stand on a force plate for 30 seconds in each trial and to perform the following task: Phase 1: children were told to keep the stand still position for the first 13 seconds; Phase 2: children reached and grasped a toy over the table at the left side and Phase 3: children brought the toy down to the chest. Mean sway amplitude in the medium-lateral direction was the dependent variable in each task phase. Toddlers were very unstable in phase 1 and always reached for the toy with both hands. Mean sway amplitude was larger in phase 3 compared with the other phases maybe because the reverse direction. The highest body oscillation of toddlers observed might represent a result of immaturity and lack of experience in balance tasks.
