Movement within foot and ankle joint in children with spastic cerebral palsy: A 3-dimensional ultrasound analysis of medial gastrocnemius length with correction for effects of foot deformation

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huijing, Peter A ^a   Bénard, Menno R ^a,b   Harlaar, Jaap ^b   Jaspers, Richard T ^a   Becher, Jules G ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ankle joint; Ankle moment; Cerebral palsy; Foot deformation; m. gastrocnemius medialis; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT MALFORMATION; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE LENGTH; SCHOOL CHILD; SPASTIC CEREBRAL PALSY; SPASTICITY;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT JOINTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 84890745339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-14-365     Document Type: Article

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