The effects of tactile and kinesthetic stimulation on neonatal development in the premature infant

White, Jerry L.; LaBarba, Richard C.

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“…[1][2][3] Similar to weight gain in the ELBW infant, this may be due to the higher variance than expected in this outcome. LOS is a difficult outcome to assess given that it depends not only on gestational age, but also on the medical and social condition of the infant and is, to some extent, parent and individual physician driven.…”

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“…Preliminary studies have suggested that massage therapy with KS may have positive effects on preterm infants including greater weight gain, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] improved bone mineralization, 8 earlier hospital discharge, [1][2][3] and more optimal behavioral and motor responses 2-4,9,10 compared to controls. However, there is inconsistency of these findings across studies and methodological concerns with previous trials have led some authors to caution widespread and routine use of preterm infant massage.…”

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Massage with kinesthetic stimulation improves weight gain in preterm infants

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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of massage with or without kinesthetic stimulation on weight gain and length of hospital stay in the preterm infant.Study Design: A prospective randomized clinical trial was conducted evaluating the effects of massage with or without kinesthetic stimulation (KS) on weight gain and length of stay (LOS) in medically stable premature (<1500 g and/or p32 weeks gestational age) neonates. Infants were randomized either to receive no intervention (control), massage therapy alone (massage), or massage therapy with KS (M/KS). Linear regression analysis was performed to evaluate differences in the primary outcomes between the groups after controlling for covariates. Post hoc analysis with stratification by birthweight (BW> and <1000 g) was also performed.Result: A total of 60 premature infants were recruited for this study; 20 infants in each group. Average daily weight gain and LOS were similar between the groups after controlling for covariates. For infants with BW>1000 g, average daily weight gain was increased in the intervention groups compared to control. This effect was mainly attributable to the M/KS group. Conclusion:Massage with KS is a relatively simple and inexpensive intervention that can improve weight gain in selected preterm infants. Length of hospital stay is not impacted by massage with or without KS. Further studies are needed to evaluate the effect of massage in the extremely low BW(<1000 g) infant.

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Massage with kinesthetic stimulation improves weight gain in preterm infants

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“…However, experiments in the early days of infant-perception research indicate that infants' preference for visual complexity increases with age, with younger infants preferring to look at less complex stimuli (usually stimuli with less contour) than do older infants (e.g., Greenberg & O'Donnell, 1972;Hershenson, Munsinger, & Kessen, 1965; H. Thomas, 1965), suggesting that there is an optimal level of perceptual stimulation for infants that increases with age. Also an equally venerable literature indicates that enriched visual, tactile, kinesthetic, or all of the above stimulations for premature or low-birth-weight infants (Scarr-Salapatek & Williams, 1973; Solkoff, Yaffee, Weintraub, & Blase, 1969; J. L. White & LaBarba, 1976) or for orphanage-reared infants (B. L. White & Held, 1966) results in enhanced perceptual, physical, or intellectual development. There is every reason to believe that providing human infants with a perceptually varied and stimulating environment positively fosters development.…”

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The role of immaturity in human development.

Bjorklund¹

1997

Psychological Bulletin

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The possibility that infants' and young children's immature behaviors and cognitions are sometimes adaptive is explored and interpreted in terms of evolutionary theory. It is argued that developmental immaturity had an adaptive role in evolution and continues to have an adaptive role in human development. The role of developmental retardation in human evolution is discussed, followed by an examination of the relation between humans' extended childhood and brain plasticity. Behavioral neoteny, as exemplified by play, is examined, as are some potentially adaptive aspects of infants' perception and cognition that limit the amount of information they can process. Aspects of immature cognition during early childhood that may have some contemporaneous adaptive value are also discussed. It is proposed that viewing immaturity as sometimes adaptive to the developing child alters how children and their development are viewed.Nature wants children to be children before they are men. If we deliberately depart from this order, we shall get premature fruits which are neither ripe nor well flavored and which soon decay. We shall have youthful sages and grown up children. Childhood has ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling, peculiar to itself; nothing can be more foolish than to substitute our ways for them.-Jean Jacques RousseauPeople understandably tend to see development as being progressive: from immature and inefficient structures and functions to mature and efficient ones. Early, immature forms are seen as "unfinished" and incomplete versions of the adult; the child is a "work in progress." From this viewpoint, immaturity is a necessary evil, something that people must get through on their way to adulthood, where the "real show of humanity emerges on stage" (L. Thomas, 1993, p. 175). This is not an unreasonable view. A prolonged period of youth is necessary for humans. Humans, more than any other species, must survive by their wits; human communities are more complex and diverse than those of any other species, and this requires that they have not only a flexible intelligence to learn the conventions of their societies but also a long time to learn them. But the species's physical and cognitive development need not progress synchronously. Their prolonged bodily development could in theory be accompanied by rapid cognitive and social development. This would result in a physically dependent child who has the intellectual and social wherewithal to master the ways of the world.Portions of this article were presented at

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“…2 Tactile stimulation (TS) or massage therapy (MT), sometimes associated with kinesthetic stimulation (KS), is used in PI along with the standard clinical treatment. TS have been the object of clinical studies since the 1960s, 3 when it was proposed as a means of encouraging PI growth and development. 3---10 Additionally, recent studies have shown that interventions such as tactile/kinesthetic stimulation (TKS) have the added benefit of reducing behavioral manifestations of stress.…”

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