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Physical Therapy in Sport: Ying-Yi Chen, Lih-Jiun Liaw, Jing-Min Liang, Wei-Tso Hung, Lan-Yuen Guo, Wen-Lan Wu
Physical Therapy in Sport: Ying-Yi Chen, Lih-Jiun Liaw, Jing-Min Liang, Wei-Tso Hung, Lan-Yuen Guo, Wen-Lan Wu
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Article history: Objectives: To evaluate timing perception ability and motor coordination in children with ADHD
Received 14 June 2011 (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) while rope jumping at different rates.
Received in revised form Design and setting: Rope jumping at (1) a constant tempo of 100 for 15 s (RJ-C) and (2) two randomly
22 February 2012
permutated tempos (80, 100, or 120) for 15 s (RJ-V).
Accepted 6 March 2012
Main Outcome Measures: The “timing variation while jumping”, “timing variation while whirling”, and
“hand-foot deviation time” in each rope jumping cycle were recorded, to assess the time estimation
Keywords:
ability.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD)
Participants: 10 children with ADHD (9.65 1.27 years) and 10 children without ADHD (9.93 1.54
Timing years) were recruited.
Rope jumping Results: The ADHD group showed greater variation in time between the foot jumping and the rope
whirling tasks. Also, the median value of hand-foot deviation time was greater in the ADHD group
(3.34 ms) than in the control group (1.75 ms). In RJ-V, the control group was able to modify their pace
and respond to the target speed in the post-phase, while the ADHD group could not.
Conclusion: Impaired timing perception leads to less accurate performance during rope jumping for
ADHD children. The findings also reveal that poor hand-foot coordination results in poor control of
simultaneous movements of the upper and lower limbs during rope jumping.
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clinical symptom of ADHD (Rubia, 2002; Rubia, Halari, Christakou, by CD player. Each participant was allowed to take a rest during this
& Taylor, 2009). It has been found that children with ADHD study. Muscle fatigue was not an issue.
show less activity in regions including the prefrontal and precentral Firstly, subjects were required to jump the rope at a constant
gyri, basal ganglia, cerebellum, inferior parietal lobule, superior tempo of 100 for 15 s (RJ-C). After 10 min rest, they were asked to
temporal gyri, and insula, which are associated with sensorimotor jump at variable speeds, consisting of the tempos of 80e100,
timing (Valera et al., 2010). Thus, they have demonstrated deficits 80e120, 100e80, 100e120, 120e80, and 120e100, for 15 s (RJ-V),
in time perception including shorter reproductions and greater respectively, in a random order. Each participant was allowed to
reproduction errors than healthy children (Barkley et al., 2001). take a 3 min rest between these 6 trials. Under RJ-V, the tempo was
ADHD children have been shown to be impaired at maintaining changed at around the 6the7th second during each trial. The tempo
a chosen tapping rhythm synchronously and in responding to of sound for each trial had been recorded before the experiment
organize their motor output (Rubia, Taylor, Taylor, & Sergeant, and was played continuously by CD player. Participants were
1999). Children with ADHD showed poor ability to plan events instructed to do their best to follow the tempo and were required to
which are separated by time (Barkley, 1997). Also, children with jump inside the edges of the force platform. Each subject was
ADHD have problems executing motor output (Pennington & instructed to finish 2 trials on RJ-C and only 1 trial on each RJ-V task
Ozonoff, 1996) and they exhibit slow output on automatic pro- to achieve a total of three acceleration trials and three deceleration
cessing tasks (Carte, Nigg, & Hinshaw, 1996). It has been suggested trials. If a subject tripped on the rope and failed on the task, then
that children with ADHD have difficulty adjusting their speed to they were asked to do more trials. The number of failures was
motor tasks with external cues (Carte et al., 1996). recorded.
Much evidence exists to suggest that children with ADHD have
impairments in fine motor timing when executing finger tapping 2.4. Data analysis
tasks. However, few studies have focussed on gross motor timing.
Through clinical observation, it was found that children with ADHD The recurrent period of jumping (foot jumping cycle) was defined
showed poor performance when rope jumping. It has been sug- as the time span from when the ground reaction force first excee-
gested that problems with timing perception and motor coordi- ded 10 N until the next time the ground reaction force exceeded
nation might be the reason. Thus, in this study, a series of rope 10 N, and so on. Similarly, the period of the rope cycle (rope whirling
jumping tasks involving different rope jumping rates was designed cycle) was defined by the rope marker reaching the lowest point
to evaluate the timing perception ability and motor coordination of and contacting ground. The “timing variation in jumping” and
ADHD children. “timing variation in whirling” were calculated as the absolute value
of the difference between 60 and the foot jumping cycle or rope
2. Methods whirling cycle, respectively; multiplied by the reciprocal of the
tempo. The timing variation is the inconsistency between the
2.1. Subjects manipulation of time by the performer and the expected manipu-
lation of time for the task, the symptom of which is either an
Five boys and five girls, with a mean age of 9.65 1.27 years, extended performance time or a shortened one compared with the
diagnosed as ADHD by a local hospital and without other combined expected time. Moreover, we subtracted the timing variation in
syndromes, were recruited in this study. Ten age-matched non- whirling from the timing variation in jumping and found the
ADHD children (4 boys, mean age 9.93 1.54 years), without ADHD absolute value to define the “hand-foot deviation time”.
symptoms or other neuromuscular symptoms, were recruited from In the RJ-C task, two trials were analyzed. Each trial of the RJ-C
local schools as the control group. Rope jumping was already a part task was analyzed from 4 to 9 s. In the RJ-V task, 6 different tasks
of the physical education curriculum at the time of data collection. were analyzed. Moreover, each trial of the RJ-V tasks was separated
Informed consent, approved by the university ethical review into three phases, which were selected as pre-phase (4e5 s), mid-
committee, was obtained from parents prior to involvement in the phase (6e7 s), and post-phase (8e9 s). Finally, the mean values for
study. hand-foot deviation time, timing variation in foot jumping, and
timing variation in rope whirling from all the available rope
2.2. Material jumping cycles of the RJ-C and RJ-V tasks were recorded.
A force plate (Kistler Instrument Corp, Winterhur, Switzerland) 2.5. Statistical analysis
with the sample rate of 1000 Hz was used to record the flight
timing of rope jumping. A six-camera motion capture system A non-parametric test (Mann Whitney U test) was used to assess
(Qualisys Motion capture Systems, Qualisys AB, Sweden), with the time difference between the ADHD group and the control group
a sample rate of 100 Hz, was used to capture rope movement using for RJ-C and RJ-V from 4 to 9 s. Also, a Mann Whitney U test was
a reflective label attached to the distal end of the rope. Further- used to assess the difference between successful trials and failed
more, the rhythm, as controlled by a metronome, was recorded by trials for RJ-C. The statistical significance for paired comparisons
a CD player for use as our target signal before the test. between each phase was calculated using Wilcoxon Signed-Rank
test method. All analyses were performed using SPSS 17.0 soft-
2.3. Procedure ware (SPSS Inc., USA). Results were considered statistically signifi-
cant when the p-value was less than 0.05.
A reflective label was stuck to the distal end and on the middle
of the rope in order to record the trajectory of the rope. Two 3. Results
reflective markers were stuck on each side of the third metatarsal
head to help judge the flight phase and landing phase during rope Fig. 1(a) displays the median value of hand-foot deviation time
jumping. Subsequently, participants were asked to warm up by from 4 to 9 s across the groups for the RJ-C task. The median value
doing rope jumping for at least 15 s before the formal rope jumping of hand-foot deviation time was greater in the ADHD group
test; they then practiced three cycles at each tempo; 80, 100 and (3.34 ms), compared to the control group (1.75 ms) (p<.01, Table 1).
120. The sounds at the various tempi were played during the task Moreover, no falls were found in the control group, but some
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4. Discussion
N/A denotes no falling trial; e denotes no p-value. Fig. 2. The median value of timing variation in foot jumping and rope whirling across
*Denotes p-value < 0.05; **denotes p-value < 0.01. groups in the pre, mid and post-phase in the task of RJ-V.
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