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Received: 22 December 2017

Accepted: 19 July 2018

First Online: 31 July 2018

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: Cristina Simon-Martinez is a physiotherapist and is currently doing her PhD in the Neuromotor Rehabilitation Research Group at the KU Leuven.Lisa Mailleux is MSc in Physiotherapy and is currently doing her PhD in the Neuromotor Rehabilitation Research Group at the KU Leuven.Els Ortibus works as a neuropediatrician and the Director of the Centre for Developmental Disorders at the University Hospitals Leuven. She is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Development and Regeneration at the KU Leuven.Anna Fehrenbach is MSc in Physiotherapy specialized in paediatric rehabilitation.Giuseppina Sgandurra is a child neurologist and psychiatrist and holds a PhD on new strategies on biomedical research. Currently, she is a university researcher at the University of Pisa and at the IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris.Giovanni Cioni is Full Professor of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Pisa and Scientific Director of IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris.Kaat Desloovere is Full Professor at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at the KU Leuven and Head of the Clinical Motion Analysis Laboratory at the University Hospitals Leuven.Nicole Wenderoth is Full Professor of Neural Control of Movement in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich.Philippe Demaerel is Full Professor in the Department of Imaging and Pathology at the KU Leuven and a radiologist at the Department of Radiology of the University Hospitals Leuven.Stefan Sunaert is Professor in the Department of Imaging and Pathology at the KU Leuven and a radiologist at the Department of Radiology of the University Hospitals Leuven.Guy Molenaers is an orthopaedic surgeon at the University Hospitals Leuven and Professor in the Department of Development and Regeneration at the KU Leuven.Hilde Feys is Full Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy and Head of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at the KU Leuven.Katrijn Klingels is Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy at the University of Hasselt and postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at the KU Leuven.

: Ethical approval was obtained by the Ethical Committee of the University Hospitals Leuven (S56513). Before entering the study, written informed consent from all parents or care givers and verbal assent from all the participants will be obtained. Through the insurance taken by the University of Leuven, the children are insured for possible injuries as a result of their participation in the experimental measurements.If any important modifications of the protocol are required, both the Ethical Committee of the University Hospitals Leuven and the trial registries will be informed. An annual progress report is submitted to the Ethical Committee of the University Hospitals Leuven, where the progression of the experiments, the protocol violations, and a list of serious adverse events are documented. This document can be found in this link: ExternalRef removed

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