Assessing Gross Motor and Gait Function Using Hip-Knee Cyclograms in Ambulatory Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy.

ABSTRACT: Weakness, spasticity, and muscle shortening are common in children with cerebral palsy (CP), leading to deficits in gross motor, gait, and selective motor functions. While traditional assessments, such as the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66), instrumented gait analysis, and the Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity (SCALE), are widely used, they are often limited by the resource-intensive nature of hospital-based evaluations. We employed cyclogram-based analysis, utilizing simple hip and knee joint kinematics to assess clinical measures, including GMFM-66, normalized gait speed, the gait deviation index (GDI), and the gait profile score (GPS). Principal component analysis was used to quantify the cyclogram shape characteristics. A total of 144 children with ambulatory s

SUBMITTER: Yoo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12300134 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature