Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66 & GMFM-88) User’s Manual Revised 3rd Edition (Ebook)

This is a new and updated 3^rd edition of the best evaluative measure of motor function designed for quantifying change in the gross motor abilities of children with cerebral palsy. The new edition includes Information on the development and validation of two abbreviated methods of estimating GMFM-66 scores using the GMFM-66- Item sets (GMFM-66- IS) and the GMFM-66- B&C (Basal & Ceiling). In addition, it includes information on the updated Gross Motor Ability Estimator (GMAE-3) which is available through the GMFM App+.

Readership

The GMFM User’s Manual, is used primarily by physical therapists and other health professionals who work with children, youth and adults with cerebral palsy. The tool has both wide clinical applicability as a means of assessing and describing current gross motor function in this population, and as a validated method of evaluating change in function over time. It serves the needs of clinical and health services researchers as an outcome measure to assess the impact of any of a host of interventions that are proposed as methods of enhancing or tacking gross motor function in this population.