The orthotic and therapeutic effects following daily community applied functional electrical stimulation in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial
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- 作者：Dayna Pool ; Jane Valentine ; Natasha Bear ; Cyril J. Donnelly…
- 关键词：Cerebral palsy ; Unilateral spastic cerebral palsy ; Spastic hemiplegia ; Randomised controlled trial ; Ankle kinematics ; Temporal ; spatial parameters ; Orthotic effect ; Therapeutic effect ; Carry over effect ; Functional electrical stimulation
- 刊名：BMC Pediatrics
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：15
- 期：1
- 全文大小：453 KB
- 刊物主题：Pediatrics; Internal Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2431
文摘
Background The purpose of this study was to determine the orthotic and therapeutic effects of daily community applied FES to the ankle dorsiflexors in a randomized controlled trial. We hypothesized that children receiving the eight-week FES treatment would demonstrate orthotic and therapeutic effects in gait and spasticity as well as better community mobility and balance skills compared to controls not receiving FES.