ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Serious Game with Electromyography Feedback and Physical Therapy in Young Children with Unilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy and Equinus Gait: A Prospective Open-Label Study.
Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03628261 (Is EMG-based Serious Games Effective in Improving Gait in Children With Cerebral Palsy ? Interest of Electromyography Feedback), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Is EMG-based Serious Games Effective in Improving Gait in Children With Cerebral Palsy ? Interest of Electromyography Feedback (EMG)
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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.
- MightyU - A portable sensor-based video game application for exercise training of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.PloS one · 2026Article
- Exceptional improvement in chronic stroke through Guided Self-rehabilitation Contract: a case report study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
The clinical effects of a serious game with electromyography feedback (EMGs_SG) and physical therapy (PT) was investigated prospectively in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (USCP). An additional aim was to better understand the influence of muscle shortening on function. Thirty children with USCP (age 7.6 ± 2.1 years) received four weeks of EMGs_SG sessions 2×/week including repetitive, active alternating training of dorsi- and plantar flexors in a seated position. In addition, each child received usual PT treatment ≤ 2×/week, involving plantar flexor stretching and command strengthening on dorsi- and plantar flexors. Five-Step Assessment parameters, including preferred gait velocity (normalized by height); plantar flexor extensibility (XV1); angle of catch (XV3); maximal active ankle dorsiflexion (XA); and derived coefficients of shortening, spasticity, and weakness for both soleus and gastrosoleus complex (GSC) were compared pre and post treatment (
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