A review of the efficacy of lower-limb orthoses used for cerebral palsy.

Searching The Cochrane Library (Issue 3, 2000), RECAL Information Services, MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, SIGLE, AMED and Inspec were searched from 1994 to 2000. Unpublished studies were sought in the UK National Research Register, through the National Health Service Research and Development website, ASLIB Index to Theses (UK theses) and Dissertation Abstracts (including North America). The Internet was also searched and the websites of organisations such as the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research were located. Handsearches were conducted in journals that publish abstracts from relevant European and North American conference proceedings such as Gait and Posture, and Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (1994 to 2000). The consensus conference document (see Other Publications of Related Interest no.3), colleagues, researchers in the field and librarians were contacted for additional material. Abstracts were eligible for inclusion.