Posted on February 28th 2010
Conclusions: PBWSTT is safe and feasible to implement in a special school setting; however, it may be no more effective than overground walking for improving walking speed and endurance for children with CP. Continued emphasis on progressive reduction of body weight support along with adding concurrent overground walking practice to a treadmill training protocol may increase the intensity of training and assist with carryover of improvements to overground walking. Treadmill training programs that include concurrent overground walking as an additional key feature of the training protocol need to be rigorously evaluated for children with CP. (Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
Posted on February 28th 2010
Conclusion: Amelioration of neuronal injury in inflammation-associated PTB may be a key mechanism by which MgSO4 prevents cerebral palsy. (Source: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Posted on February 28th 2010
Authors: Murnaghan ML, Simpson P, Robin JG, Shore BJ, Selber P, Graham HK
We have tested the reliability of a recently reported classification system of hip morphology in adolescents with cerebral palsy in whom the triradiate cartilage was closed. The classification is a six-grade ordinal scale, based on the measurement of the migration percentage and an assessment of Shenton's arch, deformity of the femoral head, acetabular deformity and pelvic obliquity. Four paediatric orthopaedic surgeons and four physiotherapists received training in the use of the classification which they applied to the assessment of 42 hip radiographs, read on two separate occasions. The inter- and intra-observer reliability was assessed using the intraclass correlation coefficient and found to be excellent, wi...
Posted on February 26th 2010
This article proposes a reflection on the establishment of procedural linguistic-discursive production of a child with cerebral palsy in the light of interactive situations. It presents clinic qualitative method as a way of linguistic-discursive investigation and intervention, emphasizing a social verbal interaction and a subjective relationship. The data was longitudinal collected during one year and four months and the linguistic productions of a four-year-old child were analysed in a discursive perspective. Therefore, faraway from measurable evaluations and treatments, which are based in mechanic tasks of words codification and de-codification, our research was based in a group process significant construction analysis. Such analysis allow us to affirm that this child amplify her role i...
Posted on February 24th 2010
The aims of the study are to describe participation of children with cerebral palsy in everyday life situations, to investigate the relationship between participation (primary outcome variable) with child and parent characteristics (independent variables) and to compare the frequency of participation (secondary outcome variable) of children with cerebral palsy with children without disabilities. A cross-sectional survey of parents of children with cerebral palsy in Northern Ireland was undertaken in families' homes using standard questionnaires. Children with cerebral palsy born between 31/8/1991 and 1/4/1997 were identified from a case register of people with the condition. A total of 102 parents opted in (51% response rate). Questionnaires included the Life Habits Questionnaire (Life-H) ...
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