Effect of Functional Electrical Stimulation on asymmetries in gait of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy

Durham, Sally; Eve, Linda; Stevens, Christopher J.; Ewins, David

doi:10.1016/j.physio.2004.02.003

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“…Achieving full gait symmetry is often an important target for physiotherapy in people with various diseases and functional anomalies [5,8]. Examples of clinical trials include a comparison between dysfunctional gait and normal people with hypothetical gait symmetry [13].…”

Section: The Effect Of Disease and Anomalies On Gait Symmetrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ellis et al [7] reported that increased gait asymmetry would increase metabolic and mechanical costs, suggesting the gait symmetry as the best prescription for healthy people. Thus, achieving full gait symmetry in most cases is an important target for physiotherapy in people with various diseases and functional anomalies [5,8], although many other papers have not supported this claim [9,10]. However, many scholars have discussed the issue of gait symmetry in people with and without various diseases and anomalies.…”

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A Review of Selected Factors Affecting Gait Symmetry

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Sadeghi

Mokhtarinia

et al. 2017

PTJ

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Purpose: Because walking is the main activity of humans for movement, many research studies have been conducted to understand its details. One of the main issues in this regard is gait symmetry and the effect of various factors on it. Accordingly, the present study aimed to review the selected factors affecting gait symmetry. Methods:A literature review was performed on articles published from 2000 to 2016 using Science Direct, Google scholar, PubMed, Ovid Medline, Scopus and Medline databases. The search keywords were "gait asymmetry", "bilateral coordination", "bilateral asymmetry", "limb dominance", "laterality", "limb preference" and "performance asymmetry."Results: A total of 60 scientific articles were selected according to the research criteria by searching the relevant articles published from 2000 to 2016 in reliable scientific databases. Conclusion:A review of the previous studies shows that walking in normal people is asymmetric in terms of the lower limb function. Also, limb disorder due to the illness and or disorder creates gait asymmetry. Therefore, regaining perfect symmetry or decreasing gait asymmetry by exercise and intervention in such individuals is considered a method to examine the success of rehabilitation process. However, as factors like movement speed and age can affect gait asymmetry, they should be controlled during the examination of gait asymmetry. Moreover, this information could be useful for gait assessment, clinical prescriptions for patients with abnormalities, designing orthosis and prosthesis, as well as improving the performance of athletes.

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Section: The Effect Of Disease and Anomalies On Gait Symmetrymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Review of Selected Factors Affecting Gait Symmetry

Nasirzade

Sadeghi

Mokhtarinia

et al. 2017

PTJ

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“…It is interesting to speculate on whether stronger muscle contractions may have increased the effectiveness of the intervention. 22 Notably, participants in 2 studies in this review received FES as a home-based program carried out by their parents, suggesting that it is a feasible treatment option for practice at home. Little clinical heterogeneity was present across the trials.…”

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Effect of Functional Electrical Stimulation on Activity in Children With Cerebral Palsy

Chiu¹,

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2014

Pediatric Physical Therapy

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“…Different studies applied S-FES to the tibialis anterior, 19,21 gastrocnemius, 19,20 tibialis anterior and gastrocnemius alternatingly, 19,20,22 and hamstring muscles. 19 P-FES was applied to the gluteals and quadriceps, 18 as well as the gastrocnemius 18,22 and the tibialis anterior 18,22 muscles (Table 1) Table 2).…”

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