Objectively Measured Sedentary Time in Youth With Cerebral Palsy Compared With Age-, Sex-, and Season-Matched Youth Who Are Developing Typically: An Explorative Study

Joyce Obeid; Astrid C.J. Balemans; Stephen G. Noorduyn; Jan Willem Gorter; Brian W. Timmons

doi:10.2522/ptj.20130333

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Figure.

Accumulation of sedentary time in a representative child with cerebral palsy (CP) and an age-, sex-, and season-matched youth who was developing typically over the course of a typical monitoring day. Total monitoring time was similar between these 2 participants (CP: 735.5 min/d versus TD: 715.8 min/d), whereas sedentary time was higher (black stripes, 726.2 versus 496.5 min/d) and breaks from sedentary behavior were less frequent in the child with CP (white stripes, 1,393 versus 1,654 breaks/d).

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Table.

Accelerometer Measurements^{^a}

↵^a Data are presented as X̅ (SD). CP=cerebral palsy, TD=youth developing typically, CI=confidence interval.
^b Significance set at P<.05.

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Objectively Measured Sedentary Time in Youth With Cerebral Palsy Compared With Age-, Sex-, and Season-Matched Youth Who Are Developing Typically: An Explorative Study