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physical therapy

Physical therapy (PT) provides services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities of children who have hemiplegia.  

The Brachial Plexus Palsy Foundation

Physical Therapist Online  information about physical therapy, clinic lists

Motor strategies in standing up in children with hemiplegia

A qualitative analysis of the benefits of strength training for young people with cerebral palsy. Oct. 2003. Australia.

A randomized clinical trial of strength training in young people with cerebral palsy. Oct. 2003. Australia.

Treadmill training with partial body weight support after stroke, Feb. 2003, Germany.

A systematic review of the effectiveness of strength-training programs for people with cerebral palsy, Aug. 2002, Australia.

Gait training in hemiplegia Treadmill training based on partial body weight support, combined with enforced stepping movements has proved to be successful in the restoration of gait pattern. May 2002

Prediction of postoperative gait velocity in cerebral palsy 2001

Asymmetries in dynamic plantar pressure distribution measurement in able-bodied gait: application to the study of the gait asymmetries in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, France

Treatment of functional limitations at the knee in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy Nov. 2001

Locomotor therapy in neurorehabilitation (use of a treadmill), 2001

A dynamical model of locomotion in spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy: influence of walking speed  Nov. 2001


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