Gait Rehabilitation in Ambulant Diplegic Children Using Botulinum A Injection and Ankle Weights.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Standing and walking serve an individual's basic needs to move from place to place, and both are the most common activities that people do daily. So, this study aims to investigate the combined effect of botulinum A injection and ankle weight on excessive knee flexion in diplegic children with crouch gait.

Methods

Sixty children with spastic diplegia walking with a crouch gait were included in this study. They were divided equally into three groups (twenty in each): group A received classical gait rehabilitation, group B received the same gait training while adding ankle weights, and group C received the same as group A and B plus botulinum A injection. The modified Ashworth scale (MAS) and Hoffman reflex/Myogenic response (H<

SUBMITTER: Ibrahim NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9822735 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature