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Step-to-step reproducibility and asymmetry to study gait auto-optimization in healthy and cerebral palsied subjects
- Source :
- Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. 52:319-329
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2009.
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Abstract
- Objective The purpose of our study was to compare plantar pressure asymmetry and step-to-step reproducibility in both able-bodied persons and two groups of hemiplegics. The relevance of the research was to determine the efficiency of asymmetry and reproducibility as indexes for diagnosis and rehabilitation processes. Material and method This study comprised 31 healthy young subjects and 20 young subjects suffering from cerebral palsy hemiplegia assigned to two groups of 10 subjects according to the severity of their musculoskeletal disorders. The peaks of plantar pressure and the time to peak pressure were recorded with an in-shoe measurement system. The intra-individual coefficient of variability was calculated to indicate the consistency of plantar pressure during walking and to define gait stability. The effect size was computed to quantify the asymmetry and measurements were conducted at eight footprint locations. Results Results indicated few differences in step-to-step reproducibility between the healthy group and the less spastic group while the most affected group showed a more asymmetrical and unstable gait. Conclusion From the concept of self-optimisation and depending on the neuromotor disorders the organism could make priorities based on pain, mobility, stability or energy expenditure to develop the best gait auto-optimisation.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
media_common.quotation_subject
Auto-optimisation
Hemiplegia
Hémiplégie
Neurological disorder
Musculoskeletal disorders
Asymmetry
Functional Laterality
Cerebral palsy
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Gait (human)
Gait asymmetry
medicine
Spastic
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Child
Gait
media_common
Reproducibility
Cerebral palsied
Rehabilitation
business.industry
Cerebral Palsy
Distribution des pressions plantaires
Reproducibility of Results
Asymétrie de la marche
medicine.disease
Biomechanical Phenomena
Dysfonctionnement musculosquelettique
Plantar pressure distribution
Case-Control Studies
Physical therapy
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18770657
- Volume :
- 52
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e593e71df7cf423dbf2a136b7914c448