Neural and non-neural contributions to ankle spasticity in children with cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
Dali XuLi-Qun Zhang

Abstract

To assess the neural and non-neural contributions to spasticity in the impaired ankle of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Instrumented tapping of the Achilles tendon was done isometrically to minimize non-neural contributions and elicit neural contributions. Robot-controlled ankle stretching was done at various velocities, including slow stretching, with minimized neural contributions. Spasticity was assessed as having neural (phasic and tonic stretch reflex torque, tendon reflex gain, contraction rate, and half relaxation rate) and non-neural origin (elastic stiffness and viscous damping) in 17 children with CP (six females and 11 males; mean age [SD] 10y 8mo [3y 11mo], range 4y-18y) and 17 typically developing children (six females and 11 males; mean age [SD] 12y 7mo [2y 9mo], range 7y-18y). All torques were normalized to weight×height. Children with CP showed increased phasic and tonic stretch reflex torque (p=0.004 and p=0.001 respectively), tendon reflex gain (p=0.02), contraction rate (p=0.038), half relaxation rate (p=0.02), elastic stiffness (p=0.01), and viscous damping (p=0.01) compared to typically developing children. Controlled stretching and instrumented tendon tapping allow the systematic quantification of vari...Continue Reading

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