The orthotic and therapeutic effects following daily community applied functional electrical stimulation in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial: Pool D et al.

Abstract
Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the orthotic and therapeutic effects of daily communityapplied FES to the ankle dorsiflexors in a randomized controlled trial. We hypothesized that children receiving theeight-week FES treatment would demonstrate orthotic and therapeutic effects in gait and spasticity as well as better community mobility and balance skills compared to controls not receiving FES. …

Pool et al. BMC Pediatrics (2015) 15:154
DOI 10.1186/s12887-015-0472-y
 
Authors:
Dayna Pool  1,3*, 
Jane Valentine  2,
Natasha Bear  1,
Cyril J. Donnelly  3,
Catherine Elliott  2,4
and Katherine Stannage  5

 

Author Details:
*Correspondence: Dayna.Pool@health.wa.gov.au
1  Department of Physiotherapy and Paediatric Rehabilitation, PrincessMargaret Hospital for Children, Roberts Road, Subiaco 6008, Australia
2 Department of Paediatric Rehabilitation, Princess Margaret Hospital forChildren, Roberts Road, Subiaco 6008, Australia.
3 School of Sport ScienceExercise and Health, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Australia.
4 Curtin University of Technology, Faculty of HealthScience, Kent Street, Bentley 6012, Australia.
5 Department of Orthopaedics, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Roberts Road, Subiaco 6008, Australia.