OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess short-term effects of botulinum toxin A in ambulant adults with spastic cerebral palsy. DESIGN A single-centre double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial. SUBJECTS Patients were recruited through advertisements. Inclusion criteria were: spastic cerebral palsy, age 18-65 years, decreased walking, walking without aids for minimum 20 m, and...

OBJECTIVES To show the preoperative planning and results from surgical treatment for paralytic hip dislocation among patients with cerebral palsy. The techniques used were proximal femoral varus derotation osteotomy in association with Dega iliac osteotomy, without opening the joint capsule. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of ten hips in eight patients with spastic quadriplegic ce...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the spatial-temporal characteristics and joint angles during overground walking without body weight support (BWS) and with 0% and 30% BWS, and during treadmill walking with the same BWS in children with cerebral palsy. METHODS six children with hemiplegic and spastic cerebral palsy (7.70 ± 1.04 years old) were videotaped during overground walking at a comfortable speed wi...

Chairman Perlstein.’ In neuromuscular disabilities there are many problems to consider. However, about half of these comprise that group of diseases we know as cerebral palsy. We will start by orientating ourselves toward cerebral palsy, and in the discussion taking up the question of differential diagnosis and related subjects. Cerebral palsy is not a single disease but a group of conditions w...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the number of musculoskeletal pain sites in adults with spastic cerebral palsy, to correlate these with physical and mental components of health-related quality of life, and to describe changes in pain site prevalence over 7 years and the factors improving or worsening the pain. DESIGN Seven-year follow-up of a national survey of adults with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). ...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy (rESWT) in the treatment of spasticity in patients with cerebral palsy. METHODS Fifteen patients with spastic cerebral palsy, 12 men and 3 women, aged 10-46 years (mean age 31). The 15 patients presented 40 spastic muscles that were divided in three groups using a computerized random-...

The purposes of this study were to compare the arm movements of persons with and without cerebral palsy and to determine if the alteration of the seat angle of a chair affected the quality of those movements. Twelve subjects--3 men and 3 women with spastic cerebral palsy and 3 men and 3 women without any known anomalies that could affect arm movements--were studied. The number of movement eleme...