Abstract Background: Children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy bearing weight mostly through the unaffected leg and may be a strategy to compensate for muscle paresis in the hemiplegic leg causing fatigue of unaffected limb and impaired balance. Aim: To determine the immediate effect of induced fatigue of unaffected limb on balance in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Patients and Methods: 29 children with hemiplegic cere-bral palsy (8.9±2.3 years). Before and after induced fatigue of unaffected limb the balance were recorded by Biodex balance system. Results: There were significant difference before and after fatigue in balance overall stability index (p<0.001), antroposterior stability index (p=0.003), mediolatral stability index (p=0.002). Conclusion: Fatigue of unaffected limb deteriorates bal-ance in children with hemiplegia.
FATEN H. ABD EL-AZEIM, Ph.D., M. M. N. M., & EL-SHENNAWY, Ph.D., S. (2019). Effect of Induced Fatigue of Unaffected Limb on Balance in Children with Hemiplegia. The Medical Journal of Cairo University, 87(March), 1019-1022. doi: 10.21608/mjcu.2019.52832
MLA
MARWA M. NAGEEB, M.Sc.; FATEN H. ABD EL-AZEIM, Ph.D.; SHOROUK EL-SHENNAWY, Ph.D.. "Effect of Induced Fatigue of Unaffected Limb on Balance in Children with Hemiplegia". The Medical Journal of Cairo University, 87, March, 2019, 1019-1022. doi: 10.21608/mjcu.2019.52832
HARVARD
FATEN H. ABD EL-AZEIM, Ph.D., M. M. N. M., EL-SHENNAWY, Ph.D., S. (2019). 'Effect of Induced Fatigue of Unaffected Limb on Balance in Children with Hemiplegia', The Medical Journal of Cairo University, 87(March), pp. 1019-1022. doi: 10.21608/mjcu.2019.52832
VANCOUVER
FATEN H. ABD EL-AZEIM, Ph.D., M. M. N. M., EL-SHENNAWY, Ph.D., S. Effect of Induced Fatigue of Unaffected Limb on Balance in Children with Hemiplegia. The Medical Journal of Cairo University, 2019; 87(March): 1019-1022. doi: 10.21608/mjcu.2019.52832
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