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Children with cerebral palsy have greater stochastic features present in the variability of their gait kinematics.

Center:

NE-Munroe-Meyer Institute of Genetics & Rehabilitation, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2014

Contact Information:

Max Kurz
[email protected]
402-559-9599

Product Description:

Children with CP have a more variable gait pattern. However, it is currently unknown if these variations arise from deterministic variations that are a result of a change in the motor command or stochastic features that are present in the nervous system. The aim of this investigation was to use a Langevin equation methodology to evaluate the deterministic and stochastic features that are present in the variability of the gait kinematics of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Ten children with spastic diplegic CP and nine typically developing (TD) children participated in this investigation. All of the children walked on a treadmill for 2 min while a three-dimensional motion capture system recorded the step kinematics. Our major findings for this investigation were: (1) children with CP had greater variability in their gait patterns than TD children, (2) the variability of the children with CP and TD children had similar deterministic features.

Keyword(s):

Cerebral Palsy, stochastic features

Product/Publication Type(s):

Peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals Published/In Press

Target Audience:

Professionals

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/08914222

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