Single-event multilevel surgery, but not botulinum toxin injections normalize joint loading in cerebral palsy patients

Many patients with cerebral palsy present a pathologic gait pattern, which presumably induces aberrant musculoskeletal loading that interferes with natural bone growth, causing bone deformations on the long term. Botulinum toxin interventions and single-event multilevel surgeries are used to restore...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical biomechanics (Bristol) 2020-06, Vol.76, p.105025, Article 105025
Hauptverfasser: Van Rossom, S., Kainz, H., Wesseling, M., Papageorgiou, E., De Groote, F., Van Campenhout, A., Molenaers, G., Desloovere, K., Jonkers, I.
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Zusammenfassung:Many patients with cerebral palsy present a pathologic gait pattern, which presumably induces aberrant musculoskeletal loading that interferes with natural bone growth, causing bone deformations on the long term. Botulinum toxin interventions and single-event multilevel surgeries are used to restore the gait pattern, assuming that a normal gait pattern restores musculoskeletal loading and thus prevents further bone deformation. However, it is unknown if these interventions are able to restore musculoskeletal loading. Hence, we investigated the impact of botulinum toxin injections and single-event multilevel surgery on musculoskeletal loading. Gait data collected in 93 children with bilateral cerebral palsy, which included pre- and post multi-level botulinum toxin (49 children) and single-event multilevel surgery (44 children) assessments, and 15 typically developing children were retrospectively processed using a musculoskeletal modelling workflow to calculate joint angles, moments, muscle and joint contact force magnitudes and orientations. Differences from the typically developing waveform were expressed by a root-mean square difference were compared using paired t-tests for each intervention separately (alpha
ISSN:0268-0033
1879-1271
DOI:10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2020.105025