Training to enhance walking in children with cerebral palsy: Are we missing the window of opportunity?

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 106-115

  Yang, Jaynie F ^a   Livingstone, Donna ^a   Brunton, Kelly ^a   Kim, Dasom ^a   Lopetinsky, Barbara ^b   Roy, Francois ^a   Zewdie, Ephrem ^a   Patrick, Susan K ^a   Andersen, John ^a,b   Kirton, Adam ^c,d   Watt, Joe Man ^a,b   Yager, Jerome ^a   Gorassini, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GLENROSE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION MEASURE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LEG EXERCISE; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TENDON REFLEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING DIFFICULTY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT; KINESIOTHERAPY; LEARNING; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WALKING;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REFLEX, STRETCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 84881487441     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: 15580776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2013.06.011     Document Type: Article

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