We used transcranial magnetic stimulation to investigate the paradigm of transcallosal inhibition (TI) in a group of adolescent patients with diplegic CP (n = 4), hereditary spastic paraplegia (n = 2), and healthy control adolescents (n = 4). None of the patients with CP showed TI, ...
Eighteen children with diplegic form of cerebral palsy (CP) underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of the enlarged occipital horns of both lateral ventricles found on previous computerized tomography (CT). In 16 of them squint was present. MRI in flow attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR...
Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have been reported to have various levels of deficits in balance control, which can be described using the relationship between the body's centre of mass (COM) and the centre of pressure (COP). This study aimed to investigate the balance control of children...
Results revealed a marked slowdown of visual imagery processing in the CP‐PD group only. They suggested that cerebral palsy is not systematically associated with visual imagery deficits, and that the presence or absence of such deficits depends on the existence of associated perceptual deficits....
Spastic cerebral palsy is caused by damage to the motor cortex of the brain and/or pyramidal tracts that carry messages from the brain to the spinal cord. If this damage occurs before or during birth, then it is called congenital CP. The majority of cases are congenital, but damage can ...
Spastic diplegic CP children suffered from muscular tightness and loss of flexibility, leading to mechanical problems, loss of range of motion, and limited executive function abilities. Stretching exercise was applied to increase soft tissue flexibility in CP children;some researchers reported that regular...
Background and purpose Spastic diplegia is the most common pattern of motor impairment in patients with cerebral palsy (CP) because of a number of deficits, including poor muscle control, weakness, impaired balance, and spasticity, which cause malalignment of the knee joint during standing and walk...
Isometric voluntary force production and relaxation capacity of the quadriceps femoris (QF) muscle was compared between 12 children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (CP) and healthy controls, age 10-11 years. Children with CP had less (p < .05) maximal voluntary-contraction force, voluntary ...
Balance controlChildren with cerebral palsy (CP) have been reported to have various levels of deficits in balance control, which can be described using the relationship between the body's centre of mass (COM) and the centre of pressure (COP). This study aimed to investigate the balance ...
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of balance training (BT) versus reciprocal electrical stimulation (RES) of knee extensors and flexors on knee joint alignment in spastic diplegic CP children. Materials and methods Thirty children with spastic diplegic CP of both sexes were selected, ranging...