OBJECTIVE Simple measures of gait for routine clinical use could be useful when the complex gait analysis systems are not available. The aim of this study was to quantify asymmetry in children with spastic hemiplegia using a two-dimensional gait analysis by videography and to relate the asymmetry to motor function. METHODS Twenty-four children with spastic hemiplegia (19 males, 5 females; mea...

OBJECTIVE This study aims at determining the effectiveness of constraint induced movement therapy as compared to bimanual therapy for improving functional status in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. METHODS This study was a randomized control trial, children (n = 20) with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy was randomly allocated to CIMT (constraint induced movement therapy) and BMT (bim...

Experimental studies in nonhuman primates have questioned the selectivity of pyramidal tract damage in giving rise to the classical pyramidal syndrome in humans, characterized by permanent spastic hemiplegia (PSH). According to this view, concomitant injury of extrapyramidal pathways is necessary for the development of both hemiplegia and spasticity. In this study we used conventional magnetic ...

Objectives: Spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy is the second type of cerebral palsy among pre-mature infants, which affects the mobility of one side of the body by impairing the brain’s ability to send nerve impulse to the muscles. The present research aims to examine the effect of motor training in mirror therapy on the gross motor skills in Spastic Hemiplegia Cerebral Palsy (SHCP) childr...

Spastic hemiplegia (SH) is a type of cerebral palsy characterized by an uncontrolled increase of muscle tone on one side of the body. Superficial dynamic electromyography (SDEMG) signals, illustrate the contributions of the action potentials of motor units on the surface of muscle groups of the lower limbs during gait. This paper studies the SDEMG signals of patients with SH, acquired at the Ga...

Periventricular leucomalacia is the term used to describe cerebral infarctions occurring near the lateral ventricles in neonates. The lesion was first described by Virchow in 1867; and was reemphasized and named periventricular leucomalacia by Banker and Larroche (1962) who described 51 cases and reviewed the published cases. This unusual site for cerebral infarction occurs in the watershed are...

tom of disease. In healthy adults foot clonus is extremely rare, consequently a pathological symptom. In children, even when healthy, foot clonus occurs parallel with a physiological increase of the tendon phenomenon ; especially in early years increase of the knee phenomenon seems the rule. For adults the following holds good: Foot clonus, not accompanied by other marked objective symptoms, is...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ultrasonographic measurement of shoulder subluxation in patients with post-stroke hemiplegia. DESIGN Prospective, single blind study. PATIENTS A total of 41 patients with post-stroke hemiplegia were included (24 men and 17 women, mean age 56 years (standard deviation 11), age range 34-78 years). METHODS Clinical evaluation of the affected shoulder was assessed us...

A left ophthalmoplegia and right hemiplegia were due to thrombosis of an intracavernous aneurysm with occlusion of the left internal carotid artery. Ophthalmoplegia with contralateral hemiplegia is probably a rare syndrome. Thrombosis of an intracavernous aneurysm is probably a rare cause of occlusion of the internal carotid artery.

In this paper, we described the imagination scenarios of a touch-less interaction technology for hemiplegia, which can support either hand or foot interaction with the smartphone or head mounted device (HMD). The computer vision interaction technology is implemented in our previous work, which provides a core support for gesture interaction by accurately detecting and tracking the hand or foot ...