objectives: postural control deficit is one of the most important problems in children with spastic cerebral palsy (cp). the purpose of this paper is to review the reactive postural control in spastic children with cp. methods: researches on development of reactive postural control in typically developing (td) children and children with cerebral palsy (cp) were analyzed. results: the results of...

Children with spastic cerebral palsy experience difficulty with ambulation. Structural changes in muscle and fascia may play a role in abnormal gait. Myofascial structural integration (Rolfing) is a manual therapy that manipulates muscle and soft tissues to loosen fascia layers, reposition muscles, and facilitate alignment. This study aimed to document (1) gait characteristics of 2 children wit...

The gene expression profile of a normal-suffering monozygotic twin pair is investigated to explore biological mechanisms of spastic type cerebral palsy. Main works include following three aspects: First, a cDNA microarray test is carried out to get the differentially expressed genes of the patient with cerebral palsy compared to her monozygotic twin sister. Second, these differentially expresse...

CONTEXT Case reports and clinical trials have indicated that osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) may improve motor function and quality of life for children with cerebral palsy. OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of osteopathy in the cranial field, myofascial release, or both versus acupuncture in children with moderate to severe spastic cerebral palsy, as measured by several outcomes...

©2003 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi.10.1302/0301-620X.85B2.14066 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2003;85-B:157-66. Cerebral palsy is the most common cause of physical disability affecting children in developed countries, with an incidence of 2.0 to 2.5 per 1000 live births.1 It is not a single entity but a heterogeneous collection of clinical syndromes, characterised by a...

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive spasticity in the lower extremities. Mutations in the atlastin GTPase 1 (ATL1) gene cause approximately 10% of autosomal dominantly inherited HSP. For many subjects with an ATL1 mutation, spastic gait begins in early childhood and does not significantly worsen, even over many years; such cases resemb...

Objective of study: To evaluate the usefulness Enriched environment (EE) and Neuro Developmental Technique (NDT) in perspective gross motor function cerebral palsy (CP) . Methodology: This Randomized control trial (RCT) was conducted from March 2016 to November Armed Forces Institute Rehabilitation Medicine Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Sample size 40 CP children. The data gathered 1 6 years spastic ch...

BACKGROUND Botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) has been successfully used as a treatment for children with spastic cerebral palsy; however, the effect of BTX-A on reducing spasticity only lasts a few months, thus serial injections are required. The present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of serial injections of BTX-A in children with spastic cerebral palsy. METHODS Fifty-two pediatric pat...