SPORTS STARS: a practitioner-led, peer-group sports intervention for ambulant children with cerebral palsy. Activity and participation outcomes of a randomised controlled trial.
Conclusion: Sports Stars is effective for improving sports-specific participation and physical competence for children with CP.Implications for rehabilitationSports Stars improves performance and satisfaction in sports-specific participation and activity goals for ambulant children with CP.Sports Stars improves sports-specific physical activity competence in locomotor and object control skills.Sport-specific interventions should incorporate sport-specific gross motor activity training as well as sports education, confidence building and teamwork.
PMID: 32603238 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Clutterbuck GL, Auld ML, Johnston LM Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research
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