Francisco G Valencia
Francisco G Valencia
Hip abnormalities affect most children with cerebral palsy. Dedicated surveillance programs have been shown to be effective means of identifying hips at risk and preventing pathologic dislocation. Patients who are ambulatory and correlate w...
Meghan N Imrie,Burt Yaszay
Meghan N Imrie
An understanding of the three-dimensional components of spinal deformity in children with cerebral palsy is necessary to recommend treatments that will positively affect these patients' quality of life. Management of these deformities can b...
L Andrew Koman,Thomas Sarlikiotis,Beth P Smith
L Andrew Koman
Functional activities of the upper extremity are limited in most individuals with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP). However, surgical interventions are applied in less than 20% of pediatric patients with an upper extremity affected by CP....
Assessment and treatment of movement disorders in children with cerebral palsy [0.03%]
儿童脑性瘫痪患者的运动障碍评估和治疗
Laura L Deon,Deborah Gaebler-Spira
Laura L Deon
Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in childhood. Orthopedic care depends on the appreciation and the identification of muscle tone abnormalities and how they affect growth and development of the child. Abnormal muscle tone i...
The role of gait analysis in treating gait abnormalities in cerebral palsy [0.03%]
步态分析在脑瘫中异常步态治疗的作用
Frank M Chang,Jason T Rhodes,Katherine M Flynn et al.
Frank M Chang et al.
Individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) cannot take a normal activity like walking for granted. CP is the most common pediatric neurologic disorder, with an incidence of 3.6 per 1000 live births. The current trend in the treatment of individua...
Tom F Novacheck,Joyce P Trost,Sue Sohrweide
Tom F Novacheck
This article describes the balanced combination of medical history, detailed physical examination, functional assessment, imaging, observational gait analysis, computerized gait analysis, and assessment of patient and family goals that are ...
Susan A Rethlefsen,Deirdre D Ryan,Robert M Kay
Susan A Rethlefsen
Because of increasing interest in conducting large-scale, multicenter investigations into the epidemiology of cerebral palsy and its prevention and treatment, efforts have been made to establish a standard definition and classification syst...
Eve Blair
Eve Blair
Half of the most severe cases of cerebral palsy (CP) survive to adulthood, but because this longevity is relatively recent, there is no empirical experience of their life expectancy past middle age. The last 2 decades have seen significant ...
Henry Chambers
Henry Chambers
Karen J Boselli,Elizabeth A Cody,Louis U Bigliani
Karen J Boselli
As our understanding of the pathoanatomy of glenohumeral instability has improved, surgical techniques for the treatment of anterior instability have progressed. Many stabilization procedures are now successfully performed arthroscopically;...