In conditions where balance may be impaired, body sway assessment documents the nature and magnitude of a patient's adaptive response. Your patient will be videotaped while walking and engaged in other activities. Specific biomechanical events of the gait cycle are correlated with the tests described previously to provide a comprehensive motion analysis and summary of treatment recommendations. Research Packard's Motion Analysis Laboratory carries out innovative research relating to ambulation in children and adolescents with neurologic and orthopedic disabilities. Previous publications focused on electromyography and balance studies, and more recently published research dealt with the energy expenditure of walking in non-disabled children and children with cerebral palsy.
Current investigations concern the pathophysiology of spasticity in children with cerebral palsy.
Biomechanical Engineering graduate students, medical students, and orthopedic residents are all currently involved with research in the motion analysis laboratory. LPCH RTC All Rights Reserved.