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Background: Children with cerebral palsy often show deviating calf muscle activation patterns during gait, with excess activation during early stance and insufficient activation during push-off. Research question: Can children with cerebral palsy improve their calf muscle activat
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Background: Spasticity, i.e. stretch hyperreflexia, increases joint resistance similar to symptoms like hypertonia and contractures. Botulinum neurotoxin-A (BoNT-A) injections are a widely used intervention to reduce spasticity. BoNT-A effects on spasticity are poorly understood,
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Background: As hyperactive muscle stretch reflexes hinder movement in patients with central nervous system disorders, they are a common target of treatment. To improve treatment evaluation, hyperactive reflexes should be assessed during activities as walking rather than passively
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Reducing the Soleus Stretch Reflex With Conditioning
Exploring Game- and Impedance-Based Biofeedback
People with spasticity, i.e., stretch hyperreflexia, have a limited functional independence and mobility. While a broad range of spasticity treatments is available, many treatments are invasive, non-specific, or temporary and might have negative side effects. Operant conditioning
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With the rise of biofeedback in gait training in cerebral palsy there is a need for real-time measurements of gait kinematics. The Human Body Model (HBM) is a recently developed model, optimized for the real-time computing of kinematics. This study evaluated differences between H
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Spasticity, i.e. exaggerated velocity-dependent stretch reflex activity, is one of the key impairments in neurological diseases, but its effect on gait is unclear [1]. To quantify spastic reflexes during gait, ankle rotations have been applied by mechanical devices [2,3], but the
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Multiple marker protocols exist for analysing gait kinematics, however most models show crosstalk, particularly in the knee joint due to difficulties in aligning the flexion/extension (F/E) axis. These difficulties are enlarged in patient groups, such as children with cerebral pa
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