How Critical is Patient Positioning in Radiographic Assessment of the Hip in Cerebral Palsy When Measuring Migration Percentage?

Background: Migration percentage (MP) is an accepted method of assessing lateral displacement of the femoral head in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Difficulty in positioning of patients for pelvic radiography remains a concern for the reliability of the MP.

Methods: This 2-part quantitative study examined 100 anteroposterior pelvic radiographs for children with CP.

Edinburgh visual gait score for use in cerebral palsy.

Complex gait analysis systems are not generally available worldwide, and no simple system of assessing gait by observation has been validated specifically for use in patients with cerebral palsy. The authors have developed a visual gait analysis score for use in cerebral palsy. Videotaped sequences of patients were recorded before and after surgery as part of a three-dimensional gait study using a Vicon (Oxford, U.