Objective: to find out the effect of managerial protocols, age and gender on the prevalence of specific gait patterns among children suffering from cerebral palsy. It is expected that this study will help researchers and clinicians focus their efforts in areas that will enhance the general functioning and the gait efficiency of children suffering from cerebral palsy instead of incorporating excessive treatment options that might have little or no effect on the gait improvement of patients with cerebral palsy.Method: a descriptive design was adopted to investigate the impact of effect of gender, age and cerebral palsy sub-type on the prevalence of specific gait patterns seen in cerebral palsy patients who were currently accessing treatments between (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) in the hospitals used and are within the age range of 4-20years.Result: a total of one hundred and forty-two cerebral palsy patient's folders were reviewed from two hospitals. Necessary information obtained were ages, type of cerebral palsy and gender of the patient, also documented was noted gait deviations. The prevalence of 12 gait abnormalities were evaluated and compared based on sub-type (Hemiplegia, Diplegia and Quadriplegia), gender and age of the patient. Stiff knee, excessive hip flexion, in-toeing were all found to be more prevalent in the whole group, while scissors gait was the less prevalent. There is a greater possibility of crouch gait, rotational mal-alignment, hip rotation in older patients, while children below the age of 0-10years were seen to have equineus and in-toeing predominantly. The major difference that was seen in the gender circle was that females are more likely to develop trendebenburg gait but less likely to have crouch gait. Conclusion:The result of this study shows that there is a significant difference in gait deviations based on gender, age and sub-type cerebral palsy classification in pediatrics. It is expected that this study will help researchers and clinicians focus their efforts in areas that will enhance the general functioning and the gait efficiency of children suffering from cerebral palsy instead of incorporating excessive treatment options that might have little or no effect on the gait improvement of patients with cerebral palsy. It is also hoped that the result of this study will be useful when counseling patients and parents about the potential ramifications for their children.

This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Author SNU designed the work and wrote literature review/discussion. Author TNU collected raw data. Author LCI performed proof reading and partial funding. Author ACOO helped in literature review and partial funding. Author NRU typed the manuscript. Author JE co-ordinated the collection of data. Author CUO managed statistical analysis. Author EAA facilitated the collection of raw data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License AJBSR.MS.ID.001619.

Disabilities in children pose a lot of challenges, fear and worries for the parents and careers of the disabled children. This study tried to find out those challenges faced by parents of disabled children while caring for them. Questionnaires designed to gather the needed information, were distributed to parents of children with disabilities who bring their children for treatment at a Federal government hospital in the eastern part of Nigeria. Same questionnaire was also filled online by parents with disabled children on a Facebook platform that goes by the name "Super Parent". Our study revealed that parenting disabled children can be very stressful as there are lots of challenges faced by parents of disabled ranging from emotional and financial stress, lack of supports, discrimination, loss of social life and others which result in psychological problems, depression, physical exhaustion and reduced quality of life.

No abstract