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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Transversal Malalignment and Proximal Involvement Play a Relevant Role in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Regardless the Subtype.

Stefanos Tsitlakidis, Sarah Campos, Nicholas A Beckmann, Sebastian I Wolf, Sébastien Hagmann, Tobias Renkawitz, Marco Götze

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Stefanos TsitlakidisDepartment of Orthopaedics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0547-4630
Sarah CamposDepartment of Orthopaedics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany.
Nicholas A BeckmannDepartment of Orthopaedics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany.
Sebastian I WolfDepartment of Orthopaedics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany.
Sébastien HagmannDepartment of Orthopaedics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany.
Tobias RenkawitzDepartment of Orthopaedics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany.
Marco GötzeDepartment of Orthopaedics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Landstrasse 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5310-9016
Heidelberg University · DE

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Abstract

Classification of gait disorders in cerebral palsy (CP) remains challenging. The Winters, Gage, and Hicks (WGH) is a commonly used classification system for unilateral CP regarding the gait patterns (lower limb kinematics) solely in the sagittal plane. Due to the high number of unclassified patients, this classification system might fail to depict all gait disorders accurately. As the information on trunk/pelvic movements, frontal and transverse planes, and kinetics are disregarded in WGH, 3D instrumented gait analysis (IGA) for further characterization is necessary. The objective of this study was a detailed analysis of patients with unilateral CP using IGA taking all planes/degrees of freedom into account including pelvic and trunk movements. A total of 89 individuals with unilateral CP matched the inclusion criteria and were classified by WGH. Subtype-specific differences were analyzed. The most remarkable findings, in addition to the established WGH subtype-specific deviations, were pelvic obliquity and pelvic retraction in all WGH types. Furthermore, the unclassified individuals showed altered hip rotation moments and pelvic retraction almost throughout the whole gait cycle. Transversal malalignment and proximal involvement are relevant in all individuals with unilateral CP. Further studies should focus on WGH type-specific rotational malalignment assessment (static vs. dynamic, femoral vs. tibial) including therapeutic effects and potential subtype-specific compensation mechanisms and/or tertiary deviations of the sound limb.

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3D instrumented gait analysisgait classificationgait kinematicsjoint momentsunilateral cerebral palsy

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PMID36013051
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