Quantitative measurement of improvement in sitting balance in children with spastic cerebral palsy after selective posterior rhizotomy

Tsui Fen Yang, Rai Chi Chan, Tai Tong Wong, Woei Nan Bair, Chih Chuan Kao, Tien Yow Chuang, Tao Chang Hsu

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摘要

Severe muscular spasticity encountered frequently in patients with spastic cerebral palsy not only affects patient locomotor function but also causes musculoskeletal complications. Significant reduction of spasticity over pelvis and lower limbs after selective posterior rhizotomy (SPR) results in improvement of trunk stability, locomotor function, and function of upper limbs also. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of sitting balance before and after SPR using a quantitative measurement in sitting stability represented as dispersion index provided by the Chattecx Balance System. Seventeen children with spastic cerebral palsy, ten boys and seven girls, with a mean age of 5.06 yr, underwent SPR. Their sitting stability under static and dynamic, visual and nonvisual testing conditions was assessed before SPR and three mo after SPR. Their sitting balance showed significant improvement at postoperative evaluation except for the static- nonvisual testing condition. Dispersion index under the dynamic testing condition was significantly higher than under the static testing condition, which implies that dynamic sitting balance was worse than static sitting balance in these patients. There was no statistical difference of sitting performance between visual and nonvisual condition both preoperatively and postoperatively. Quantitative measurement of dispersion index provided by the Chattecx Balance System offers an objective evidence of improvement in sitting balance for children after SPR.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)348-352
頁數5
期刊American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
75
發行號5
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 9月 1996
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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 物理治療、運動療法和康復
  • 復健

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