Rehabilitation management of children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy

Binder, Helga; Eng, Gloria D.

doi:10.1016/0003-9993(89)90012-9

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“…Children with perinatal injury had all received the diagnosis o f spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (CP), a developmental disorder of movement and posture resulting from nonprogressive brain injury frequently occurring during premature birth (Blasco, 1989;Binder & Eng, 1989). Spastic diplegia is one form of cerebral palsy, in which the most common motor impairments are in anibulation and postural functioning (Blasco, 1989).…”

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Visual Attention in Children with Perinatal Brain Injury: Asymmetric Effects of Bilateral Lesions

Craft

White²,

Park³

et al. 1994

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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The neural systems underlying visual attention have been well-documented in adults through studies examining the effects of brain lesions on specific attentional operations (Posner, Cohen, & Rafal, 1982). The questions of how this attentional system develops and how it is affected by disruption during development are only beginning to be addressed. In the present study, a covert orienting task (Posner et al., 1982) was administered to 33 children with bilateral perinatal injury to anterior, posterior, or diffuse brain regions and 36 normal children to determine the effects of such injury on visual attention. Children with bilateral anterior lesions showed lateralized impairment indicating compromise of left hemisphere early attentional processes. In contrast, children with posterior lesions that typically disrupt attention in adults showed only general slowing, with no differences in right or left visual field performance or deficits in specific attentional operations. These results suggest that anterior brain regions play an important role in the development of visual attention, and that left hemisphere attentional processes are particularly affected by disruption of anterior function.

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Visual Attention in Children with Perinatal Brain Injury: Asymmetric Effects of Bilateral Lesions

Craft

White²,

Park³

et al. 1994

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…[3][4][5][6] Sutherland and many investigators tried to standardize the evaluation of gait abnormalities in patients with CP, based on assessment of temporal-spatial parameters, ground reaction forces, joint moments, joint powers, and muscle phasic patterns of the lower extremities during walking. 13 -20-22 Although abundant data were collected and synthesized for analysis, it can however, be difficult to interpret.…”

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Gait Analysis Through Foot Pattern Recognition for Children With Cerebral Palsy

Wong

Chen

Hong

et al. 1999

J. Musculoskelet. Res.

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In this study, we simplified the analysis of kinetic gait data using pattern recognition. Gait patterns were studied in 42 spastic children with cerebral palsy (age range: 3 to 17 years old), and 24 ageand sex-matched children. Gait analysis was performed using the DynoGraphy (CDG) system (Infortronic, Holland). The foot enrollment and the role of the heel or forefoot were assessed to form the gaitline. The bipedal phase was examined using a cyclogram, which is a cyclic characteristic formed by the changing position of the application point of the resultant normal force on a vertical supporting horizontal plane during motion. Based on the pattern recognition, the gait patterns of the subjects could be classified into 4 different patterns in both the gaitline and the cyclogram. The classification of the gait was parallel to the clinical evaluation of cerebral palsy obtained based on Minear's classification of daily activity (p < 0.05). The correlation between the gaitline and cyclogram was also highly significant (p < 0.05). The results of this study suggest that an automated pattern recognition program might provide an additional method for comprehensive gait evaluation in children with cerebral palsy.

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“…Crouched gait or diplegic gait is an important functional biomarker in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (CP) Steele et al, 2011), which affects locomotor development due to muscle weakness or atrophy and motor control impairments particularly in the lower extremity muscles (Abel & Damiano, 1996;Binder & Eng, 1989;Damiano & Abel, 1998;Guiliani, 1991;Kramer & MacPhail, 1994;Wiley & Damiano, 1998). In the United States alone, more than 100,000 people under the age of 18 suffer from locomotor impairment secondary to CP (Kuban & Levitin, 1994).…”

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Effects of the progressive walking-to-running technique on gait kinematics, ultrasound imaging, and motor function in spastic diplegic cerebral palsy – an experimenter-blind case study

Lee

Jeong

You

et al. 2013

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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the progressive walking-to-running technique (PWRT) in a child with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (CP). DESIGN: A single case study with pre-/post-test. SUBJECT: An 11-year-old male, diagnosed with spastic diplegic CP. METHODS: The PWRT was provided for 60 minutes a day, 2 times a week for 12 weeks. Gross motor function tests, ultrasound imaging, hand-held dynamometer, and the Vicon motion capture system were used to determine motor function, muscle size and strength, and gait kinematics. RESULTS: Gross motor function was improved after the intervention. The size of right and left rectus femoris and tibialis anterior muscles in their contracted states were enhanced by 1.36, 5.09, 83.74, and 54.37%, respectively. Associated muscle strength was also increased by 58.8, 30.8, 28.0, and 118.2% in both rectus femoris and tibialis anterior muscles. Left stride length, walking speed, maximal flexion-extension angular excursion of the hip joint were enhanced by 95.7, 87.8, and 100.4% after PWRT, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Our novel walking-running training paradigm was effective for restoring gait and running ability in a child with spastic diplegic CP.

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Rehabilitation management of children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy

Cited by 43 publications

References 40 publications

Visual Attention in Children with Perinatal Brain Injury: Asymmetric Effects of Bilateral Lesions

Visual Attention in Children with Perinatal Brain Injury: Asymmetric Effects of Bilateral Lesions

Gait Analysis Through Foot Pattern Recognition for Children With Cerebral Palsy

Effects of the progressive walking-to-running technique on gait kinematics, ultrasound imaging, and motor function in spastic diplegic cerebral palsy – an experimenter-blind case study

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