Muscle pathology and clinical measures of disability in children with cerebral palsy

J Rose, WL Haskell, JG Gamble… - Journal of …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
We performed a histologic and morphometric study of spastic muscle from 10 children with
diplegic cerebral palsy, comparing muscle structure with the gait parameters of energy …

Muscle histopathology in spastic cerebral palsy

J Ito, A Araki, H Tanaka, T Tasaki, K Cho… - Brain and …, 1996 - Elsevier
We studied the histopathology of spastic muscles in patients with spastic cerebral palsy
using specimens obtained from the gastrocnemius muscles during orthopedic operations …

Differences in gastrocnemius muscle architecture between the paretic and non-paretic legs in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy

AA Mohagheghi, T Khan, TH Meadows, K Giannikas… - Clinical …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the architectural alterations of
skeletal muscle following hemiplegic cerebral palsy. If associated with functional and clinical …

Spastic wrist flexors are more severely affected than wrist extensors in children with cerebral palsy

E Pontén, J Fridén, LE Thornell… - … medicine and child …, 2005 - cambridge.org
Morphological properties of skeletal muscle were compared between wrist flexors and
extensors within the same children (n= 8, six females, two males; age range 4 to 9y, median …

Synergistic muscle activation during maximum voluntary contractions in children with and without spastic cerebral palsy

K Tedroff, LM Knutson, GL Soderberg - Developmental medicine and …, 2006 - cambridge.org
We examined muscle recruitment patterns in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and
comparison children without CP under conditions of maximum voluntary contractions. Three …

Histological and morphological aspects of muscle in infantile cerebral palsy.

L Romanini, C Villani, C Meloni… - Italian journal of …, 1989 - europepmc.org
There is very little in the literature on the histology and morphology of muscle in cerebral
palsy. The authors studied the histology of antigravitational spastic muscles, which are …

MRT-measurements of muscle volumes of the lower extremities of youths with spastic hemiplegia caused by cerebral palsy

R Lampe, S Grassl, J Mitternacht, L Gerdesmeyer… - Brain and …, 2006 - Elsevier
After long term of studies from our gait lab, the typical muscular dysbalances by all of our
patients with cerebral palsy where pointed out. Now we wanted to examine using the MRT …

Pathology of spastic muscle in cerebral palsy

ME Castle, TA REYMAN… - … and Related Research®, 1979 - journals.lww.com
This study of spastic muscle in children with cerebral palsy, is directed toward 3 problems.
First, the histopathology of muscle in cerebral palsy had not been elucidated and much of …

Muscle stiffness and strength and their relation to hand function in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy

DV Vaz, M Cotta, ST Fonseca… - … Medicine & Child …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This study compared the passive stiffness of wrist flexors and the strength of wrist flexors and
extensors in three different wrist positions (30° of flexion, neutral, and 30° of extension) …

Contributing factors to muscle weakness in children with cerebral palsy

GCB Elder, J Kirk, G Stewart, K Cook… - … medicine and child …, 2003 - cambridge.org
The aim of this study was to determine the extent of ankle muscle weakness in children with
cerebral palsy (CP) and to identify potential causes. Maximal voluntary contractions of …