Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; IRCCS "San Raffaele Pisana" - Tosinvest Sanità, Roma, Italy.
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2014 Mar;18(2):134-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2013.09.007. Epub 2013 Oct 11.
Movements of the lower limbs during walking have been widely investigated in literature, while quantification of arm movement during gait is scanty. The aim of the present study was to assess quantitatively the upper limb motion during gait in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Sixteen children with diplegic CP were evaluated using a full-body marker set, which allows assessing both the lower and upper limb kinematics. Our results demonstrated that movement of the arms was characterized by an abducted shoulder and a more flexed elbow position at the initial contact of the gait cycle with a quite physiological range of motion if compared to controls. These data showed that gait of children with diplegic CP is generally characterized by abnormal upper limb position which could be considered a strategy to keep balance and posture control during walking.
在文献中，人们广泛研究了行走时下肢的运动，而对步态中手臂运动的量化研究则很少。本研究的目的是定量评估脑瘫儿童行走时上肢运动。16 名四肢瘫脑瘫患儿使用全身标记套件进行评估，该套件可评估下肢和上肢运动学。我们的研究结果表明，与对照组相比，手臂的运动特征是肩部外展和肘部在步态周期初始接触时更弯曲，运动范围较为正常。这些数据表明，四肢瘫脑瘫患儿的步态通常表现为异常的上肢位置，这可能被认为是一种在行走过程中保持平衡和姿势控制的策略。
