Pelvic kinematics and their relationship to gait type in hemiplegic cerebral palsy
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…
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