Abstract
To investigate the effect of a postoperative strength-training program on the walking of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Randomized controlled trial. Hospital rehabilitation department. Thirty-nine children with CP (age range, 6-16 y). After orthopedic surgery, the control group (n=20) followed a conventional physiotherapy (PT) program, and the strength-training group (n=19) followed a strength-training program in addition to the conventional PT. Twenty-nine age-matched healthy children were used as references. A 9-month strength-training program. Spatiotemporal, kinematic, and kinetic parameters during gait analysis were analyzed before (E0) and 1 year after (E1) the surgery. For 22 children, a 2-year postoperative gait analysis (E2) took place as well. At E1, several kinematic and kinetic parameters improved, although there was no significant difference between the groups. Spatiotemporal parameters showed a worsening at E1 and a recovery to preoperative values at E2. The examined parameters may be more substantially influenced by factors such as the surgery outcome and the variability of pathologic characteristics than by the strength-training program per se. However, a more significant effect of the strength-training may ...Continue Reading
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