Diverse ambulatory profiles in cerebral palsy: in-depth review
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https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20244168Keywords:
Cerebral palsy, Ambulation prediction, Prognostic factorsAbstract
The estimation of ambulation prognosis in cerebral palsy children poses a challenge for parents, caregivers, neurologists, and pediatric rehabilitation specialists despite its status as the primary cause of chronic disability in this demographic. Currently, a scale is developed for predicting ambulation in these children, making it imperative to anticipate their ambulatory potential. Research indicates that a child's gross motor skill development, such as achieving neck control by nine months, independent sitting by two years, crawling, and meeting other developmental milestones by thirty months, in addition to factors like postural reactions, cognitive abilities, infantile reflexes, and auditory and visual functions, serve as predictive indicators of ambulation. Moreover, even favourable upper limb functions in cerebral palsy contribute to prognosis of ambulation. The primary cause of chronic disability in pediatric population is cerebral palsy, and it can be challenging for pediatric rehabilitation specialists, neurologists, and parents to predict a child's prognosis for walking. The ambulation chart is available, which is developed by researcher, A Thai, who provided guidance on this matter. It is yet unknown how valid and reliable this tool is to serve as a predictor of ambulation in patients with cerebral palsy. To develop a suitable method for predicting ambulation in cerebral palsy that takes into account all the variables except those listed above, more research in this area is required.
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