Biomechanical Characteristics of Walking in Patients with Different Forms of Infantile Cerebral Palsy during Treatment with Dynamic Proprioceptive Correction

Abstract

Results of biomechanic examination of walking in healthy individuals and patients with ICP before and after treatment using dynamic proprioceptive correction are presented. The patients with ICP had different forms of the disease: spastic, hemiplegic, hyperkinetic and atonic-ataxic. The following features of walking were studied: range and volume of flexor-extensor motion in hip, knee and ankle joints as well as time characteristics of step cycle. Data obtained showed common and individual signs of gait disturbance depending on the form of ICP. In author's opinion the possible mechanism of walking disturbance in patients with ICP was pathological change of motion stereotype and that disturbed motion stereotype was normalized using dynamic proprioceptive correction. Biomechanic examination of walking allows to provide the differentiation of various forms of ICP as well as to evaluate the locomotor function changes in the course of treatment.