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Title : Relationship Between Shoulder Joint Angle And Forward Reaching Function In Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
Background: Children with mild to moderate spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy perform movements with their affected and non-affected upper limbs even bimanually or unimanually during their activity of daily livings. Objectives: detecting the relation between shoulder joint angle and forward reaching speed in hemiparetic cerebral palsied children and the impact of the non-affected limb on the speed of movement and the shoulder angle of the affected limb while doing the movement bimanually. Subjects and methods the study was conducted on fifty children with spastichemiparesis of both sexes; ranging in age from 6 to10 years old. They were asked to reach the ball on the table in front of them three times, the first two times by the affected and non-affected separately then the third time by using both limbs at the same time. The shoulder joint flexion angle and the speed of reaching movement at each time were measured by using kenovea software.Results: The results of the studyrevealed significant increase in the joint angle in bimanual limb use on the affected limb degrees and there was no significant difference in the speed between affected and non-affected limbs in the bilateral tasks and there was an inverse relationship between shoulder flexion angle and reaching speed. Conclusion: It was concluded from results of this study that better outcomes were gained when the task was done bilaterally and there was an inversely relationship between the joint angle and the speed of movement of the affected limb of hemiparetic cerebral palsy children during forwar Cerebral palsy d reaching activity.