ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2022
Causal Effects of Motor Control on Gait Kinematics After Orthopedic Surgery in Cerebral Palsy: A Machine-Learning Approach.
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- Directed acyclic graphs in perioperative observational research-A systematic review and critique against best practice recommendations.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Frameworks and methods for estimating the causal effect of clinical treatment in orthopaedics: a scoping review.EFORT open reviews · 2026Review
- Mobility Function and Aperiodic Electrocortical Activity in Younger and Older Adults.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2026Article
- Estimating the contribution of musculoskeletal impairments to altered gait kinematics in children with cerebral palsy using predictive simulations.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Directed acyclic graphs to minimise bias and optimise causal inference in SNAP-3: an observational cohort study of frailty, multimorbidity, and delirium in older surgical patients.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Observational
- The Gait Pattern Classification System for Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy (GaP-CP)-A Validity Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Does crouch alter the effects of neuromuscular impairments on gait? A simulation study.Journal of biomechanics · 2024Article
- Audiovisual biofeedback amplifies plantarflexor adaptation during walking among children with cerebral palsy.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Speed-dependent biomechanical changes vary across individual gait metrics post-stroke relative to neurotypical adults.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Case report: Intensive rehabilitation program delivered before and after single-event multilevel surgery in a girl with diplegic cerebral palsy.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
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Background: Altered motor control is common in cerebral palsy (CP). Understanding how altered motor control affects movement and treatment outcomes is important but challenging due to complex interactions with other neuromuscular impairments. While regression can be used to examine associations between impairments and movement, causal modeling provides a mathematical framework to specify assumed causal relationships, identify covariates that may introduce bias, and test model plausibility. The goal of this research was to quantify the causal effects of altered motor control and other impairments on gait, before and after single-event multi-level orthopedic surgery (SEMLS). Methods: We evaluated the impact of SEMLS on change in Gait Deviation Index (ΔGDI) between gait analyses. We constructed our causal model with a Directed Acyclic Graph that included the assumed causal relationships between SEMLS, ΔGDI, baseline GDI (GDI Results: We prospectively recruited a cohort of children with bilateral CP undergoing SEMLS ( Conclusion: Altered motor control did have a strong effect on GDI
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