Measurement of ankle spasticity of children with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780494161647
Description: Spasticity, which is an increase of the muscle tone, with increased deep tendon reflexes, is a common clinical problem of children with cerebral palsy, affecting the upper and lower limbs. To assess the outcome of the therapeutic interventions used to alleviate spasticity, a quantifiable measurement system was designed at the Bloorview MacMillan Children's Centre.The spasticity measurement system was used to perform, the passive range of motion, reflex threshold and sinusoidal oscillation tests on subjects with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy, to (a) assess the variance in spasticity between clinical visits and (b) compare the spastic ankle to the unaffected ankle for each child.Five children, 6-12 years of age, with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy were tested.The data from this study showed significant results for both part (a) and part (b), however; additional subjects would provide more conclusive and statistically significant results.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2874.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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