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Effect of a rigid ankle–foot orthosis on hamstring length in children with hemiplegia
- Source :
- Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 44:51
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2002.
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Abstract
- Eighteen children with hemiplegia, mean age 8 years 5 months, underwent gait analysis and musculoskeletal modelling using specially designed software. The maximum lengths of the hamstrings were determined for each child walking in and out of an ankle-foot orthosis (AFO). The muscles were deemed to be short if shorter than the normal average -1SD. In bare feet 8 participants had short medial hamstrings with a higher proportion of these in the less involved individuals. All participants showed an increase in maximum hamstring length when wearing an AFO. In all but one child this was sufficient to restore hamstring length to within normal limits. These finding suggest that hamstring pathology in hemiplegic gait is usually secondary to more distal lower limb pathology.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Hemiplegia
Hemiplegic gait
Lower limb
Rigid ankle-foot orthosis
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Developmental Neuroscience
Humans
Medicine
Child
Muscle, Skeletal
Gait Disorders, Neurologic
Braces
Foot
business.industry
Mean age
Normal limit
Treatment Outcome
Muscle Spasticity
Gait analysis
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Physical therapy
Female
Neurology (clinical)
business
Ankle Joint
Software
Hamstring
Foot (unit)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14698749 and 00121622
- Volume :
- 44
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....10bbc7ad92cd461eac1b7944420cf734