How do children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy manage walking on inclines?

It is important for children with cerebral palsy (CP) to keep up with their non-affected peers [1]. Participation in everyday life in the most unimpaired way possible is, thus, an important goal of affected families and their attending physicians. Walking on inclined surfaces is an everyday task [2 –5], which presents additional challenges to the locomotor system compared to level ground (LG) walking [2,3,6–9]. Healthy subjects appear to have a stable enough gait to negotiate inclines without problems, even though inclines decrease the stability of gait [2,10].
Source: Gait and Posture - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research