Crouch Gait in Dravet Syndrome

Progressive gait deterioration in adolescents with Dravet syndrome.

OBJECTIVE To characterize changes in gait by age in patients with Dravet syndrome. DESIGN Prospective, cross-sectional study. SETTING Tertiary children's hospital. PATIENTS Twenty-six subjects with Dravet syndrome, aged 2 to 34 years. Twenty-three patients had mutations of the sodium channel α1 subunit gene, SCN1A. INTERVENTIONS Assessment via video gait analysis, physical examination o...

Trunk Kinematic Analysis during Gait in Cerebral Palsy Children with Crouch Gait Pattern

Background: Deficits in upper body movement have received little attention during gait in cerebral palsy (CP) children with crouch gait pattern (CGP).Objective: Purpose of this research is to describe the correlation of trunk movement with the excessive knee flexion and ankle kinematic in CP children with CGP.Methods: Gait analysis data from 57 limbs of diplegic CP children with CGP and 26 limb...

Treatment of Dravet Syndrome.

Dravet syndrome is among the most challenging electroclinical syndromes. There is a high likelihood of recurrent status epilepticus; seizures are medically refractory; and patients have multiple co-morbidities, including intellectual disability, behaviour and sleep problems, and crouch gait. Additionally, they are at significant risk of sudden unexplained death. This review will focus predomina...

مقایسه زوایای مفاصل اندام تحتانی حین راه رفتن در افراد دارای ناهنجاری crouch gait و سالم با استفاده از نرم افزار Opensim

Dravet Syndrome: Diagnosis and Long-Term Course.

Dravet syndrome is one of the most severe epilepsy syndromes of early childhood, and it comes with very high morbidity and mortality. The typical presentation is characterized by hemiclonic or generalized clonic seizures triggered by fever during the first year of life, followed by myoclonic, absence, focal and generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Non-convulsive status epilepticus and epileptic e...