ArticleScientific reports2021
Ultrasound shearwave elastography to characterize muscles of healthy and cerebral palsy children.
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- Muscle elasticity variations in assessing age-related changes in adults - A systematic review.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2025Pooled it
- Musculoskeletal shear-wave elastography in the paediatric population: a systematic review.Pediatric radiology · 2026Review
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- Ultrasound elastography in pediatric care: bridging innovation and noninvasive diagnostics.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2026Review
- Shear Wave Elastography in Children: Normative Values and the Impact of Healthy Habits in a Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Quantification of muscle morphology and stiffness in spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy versus typically developing controls using magnetic resonance elastography.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2026Article
- Superior lead-free piezoceramics for wearable multimodal ultrasound imaging arrays.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Influence of the physical pressure of an ultrasound probe on shear-wave elastography measurements of the gastrocnemius muscle in a paediatric population: a non-interventional cohort study.Polish journal of radiology · 2024Article
- Ultrasound Elastography in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- How mechanics of individual muscle-tendon units define knee and ankle joint function in health and cerebral palsy-a narrative review.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Shear Wave Velocity to Evaluate the Effect of Botulinum Toxin on Post-Stroke Spasticity of the Lower Limb.Toxins · 2022Article
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- Muscle Ultrasonographic Elastography in Children: Review of the Current Knowledge and Application.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Neck Disability Index Is Better in Classification of Recovery after Whiplash Injury in Comparison with Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography of Trapezius Muscle.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Determination of Reference Values of the Masseter Muscle Stiffness in Healthy Adults Using Shear Wave Elastography.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Shear wave elastography (SWE) is an ultrasound technique to obtain soft tissue mechanical properties. The aim of this study was to establish the reliability of SWE in young children, define reference data on healthy ones and compare the shear modulus of healthy and spastic muscles from cerebral palsy (CP). The reproducibility is evaluated: at rest, on 7 children without any musculoskeletal pathology by 3 different operators, on 2 muscles: biceps brachii long head and medial gastrocnemius. The comparison study was made, on the same 2 muscles, at rest and under passive stretching, with a control group (29 healthy children), a spastic group (spastic muscles of 16 children from CP) and a non-spastic group (non-spastic muscles of 14 children from CP). The intra-operator reliability and inter-operator reliability, in terms of standard deviation, were 0.6 kPa (11.2% coefficient of variation (CV)) and 0.8 kPa (14.9% CV) for the biceps, respectively, and 0.4 kPa (11.5% CV) and 0.5 kPa (13.8% CV) for the gastrocnemius. At rest, no significant difference was found. Under passive stretching, the non-spastic CP biceps were significantly stiffer than the control ones (p = 0.033). Spastic gastrocnemius had a higher shear modulus than in the control muscles (p = 0.0003) or the non-spastic CP muscles (p = 0.017). CP stretched medial gastrocnemius presented an abnormally high shear moduli for 50% of patients.
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