Posted on March 31st 2011
Conclusion.âThe disablement model is a valuable theoretical tool that can be used to organise assessments in CP and to explain how they are related.
PMID: 21529123 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Disability and Rehabilitation)
Posted on March 31st 2011
This article introduces a new index, the GDI-Kinetic; a direct analog of the GDI based on joint kinetics rather than kinematics. The method consists of: (1) identifying âfeaturesâ of the raw gait kinetic data using singular value decomposition, (2) identifying a subset of features that account for a large percentage of the information in the raw gait kinetic data, (3) expressing the raw data from a group of typically developing children as a linear combination of these features, (4) expressing a subject's raw data as a linear combination of these features, (5) calculating the magnitude of the difference between the subject and the mean of the control, and (6) scaling and transforming the difference, in order to provide a simple, and statistically well-behaved, measure. Linear combinati...
Posted on March 31st 2011
Abstract: While there is general clinical consensus that children with Unilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy (USCP) walk with an increased anterior pelvic tilt and the affected hemipelvis retracted, there is less agreement to observations in the coronal plane. Furthermore, the relationship of 3D pelvic kinematic parameters to the Winters, Gage and Hicks (WGH) hemiplegic gait classification has not been reported in the literature. Valid 3-D kinematic gait data were obtained in a representative population of 91 children with hemiplegia (56M, mean age 10.8yrs, age range 5â18yrs; WGH classification Type I n=32, II n=5, III n=7, IV n=9, unclassified n=38). Deviations of symmetry and range of movement from our normative data set (n=48; 26F; mean age 9.9yrs; age range 5â18yrs) for mean tilt, tilt...
Posted on March 31st 2011
We appreciate the interest expressed in our article, which investigated late deformities occurring after the transfer of flexor carpi ulnaris to extensor carpi radialis brevis in children with cerebral palsy. (Source: The Journal of Hand Surgery)
Posted on March 31st 2011
The article by Patterson et al addresses deformities after wrist tendon transfer in patients with cerebral palsy (CP). They propose that failure of scar to stretch during rapid growth contributes to the development of a wrist extension deformity after flexor carpi ulnaris to extensor carpi radialis brevis transfer. (Source: The Journal of Hand Surgery)
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