Determination of gait patterns in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy using principal components

Spastic diparetic does not directly affect the capacity to ascend and descend access ramps: three-dimensional analysis

“…Sott et al (2) found that diplegic CP with Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) level II adapt to ramps similarly to typically development children, on sagittal plane of movement, but use greater postural adaptations, and suggest that their 2-dimensional gait analyses could be a limitation, cause they did not consider any variables in the transverse plane. A gait analyses incorporating gait parameters in all three anatomical planes can improve the evaluation of particular gait problems (8) related to diplegic children, especially in transverse plane.…”

Transverse plane rotation of the foot and transverse hip and pelvic kinematics in diplegic cerebral palsy

“…the feet move into external rotation and the hips move into internal rotation during initial contact and loading response [6,7]. The results of correcting femoral torsion in isolation can lead to early recurrence and poor results and there is evidence emerging that all deformities including the pes plano-valgus should be corrected in a single event multilevel surgery to produce optimal results [8].…”

Correlação entre a Visual Gait Assessment Scale, Edinburgh Visual Gait Scale e Escala Observacional da Marcha em crianças com paralisia cerebral diparética espástica

“…In this respect, many authors have been contributed to the study of gait analysis in children with spastic diplegia CP 2,4,10,28 .…”

“…Gait disorders are common outcomes in children with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy (CP) [1][2][3][4] . These disorders tend to become worse with age limiting the functionality of this population, being the gait one of the major focus of the rehabilitation of these children.…”