Medial hamstring lengthening in the presence of hip flexor tightness in spastic diplegia

Gait and Posture

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 288-296

  Zwick, Ernst B ^a   Saraph, Vinay ^a   Zwick, Gertrude ^a   Steinwender, Christiane ^a   Linhart, Wolfgang E ^a   Steinwender, Gerhardt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Gait; Hamstring lengthening; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GAIT; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPASTIC PARESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; GAIT; HUMANS; KINETICS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036890436     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(02)00022-X     Document Type: Article

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