Effects of gastrocnemius fascia lengthening on gait pattern in children with cerebral palsy using the Gait Profile Score

Gait Deviation Index, Gait Profile Score and Gait Variable Score in children with spastic cerebral palsy: Intra-rater reliability and agreement across two repeated sessions

“…GPS and GVS are generally not considered to be normally distributed [4,7,21], as was also seen in our data, and the logarithmically transformation of the scores before performing statistical tests is needed. The logarithmically transformation increases the homogeneity of the data, which might affects the obtained ICC values and thereby reduced the clinimetric quality.…”

“…Studies of children with CP have shown that the GDI and GPS demonstrate satisfactory concurrent validity when compared with gold standard measures of gait and gross motor function [3][4][5][6]. They have also shown responsiveness to surgical lengthening of the gastrocnemius muscle [7,8], and the GDI has been reported as a reliable measure within a single session [9]. However, intra-tester reliability and agreement across two separate sessions have, to our knowledge, only been investigated for the GDI in typically developing children, demonstrating limits of agreement of AE10 points and a non-significant difference between the two sessions [9].…”

Use of the Gait Profile Score for the Quantification of Gait Pattern in Down Syndrome

“…The GPS was used in children with different neurological and orthopaedic limitation (Beynon et al 2010;Ferreira et al 2014) and in adults (Kark et al 2012;Celletti et al 2013;Pau et al 2014) demonstrating to be useful in clinical practice with strong and significant correlations with clinicians' ratings of kinematic gait deviation (Beynon et al 2010). However, GPS presented again a limited exploration in describing pathological gait pattern: at the moment, no applications of GPS (and its GVSs) in the analysis of gait deviations in DS population were found.…”

Abnormality of standing posture improves in patients with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy following lower limb surgery

“…Interventions may include lengthening of musculo-tendinous units, tendon transfers, rotational and displacement osteotomies and stabilization of the hip and foot [6]. A recent systematic review [7] identified numerous retrospective [8][9][10][11][12][13] and prospective studies [14][15][16][17][18][19] demonstrating improvements in gait, gross motor function and quality of life following orthopaedic intervention. 3D gait analysis is commonly used to inform surgical decision making [20][21][22].…”

“…A number of indices have been proposed in the literature to measure gait abnormality, including the Gillette Gait Index (GGI) [23], Gait Deviation Index (GDI) [24] and Gait Profile Score (GPS) [25]. The Gait Profile Score (GPS) [25][26][27] is a well-validated index commonlyadopted as an outcome measure for orthopaedic intervention [11,[14][15][16][17]28]. Thomason et al [14,15] reported improvements in gait and gross motor function at 1, 2 and 5 years post-operatively using a range of gait indices.…”