The Effects of Varying Ankle Foot Orthosis Stiffness on Gait in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy Who Walk with Excessive Knee Flexion

INTRODUCTION: Rigid Ankle-Foot Orthoses (AFOs) are commonly prescribed to counteract excessive knee flexion during the stance phase of gait in children with cerebral palsy (CP). While rigid AFOs may normalize knee kinematics and kinetics effectively, it has the disadvantage of impeding push-off powe...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Kerkum, Yvette L., Buizer, Annemieke I., van den Noort, Josien C., Becher, Jules G., Harlaar, Jaap, Brehm, Merel-Anne
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658111/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26600039
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142878
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