Gait Rehabilitation in Ambulant Diplegic Children Using Botulinum A Injection and Ankle Weights.

Objectives: Standing and walking serve an individual's basic needs to move from place to place, and both are the most common activities that people do daily. So, this study aims to investigate the combined effect of botulinum A injection and ankle weight on excessive knee flexion in diplegic children with crouch gait.

Methods: Sixty children with spastic diplegia walking with a crouch gait were included in this study.

Weight distribution asymmetry in relation to walking speed in children with spastic cerebral palsy.

Background: Gait speed and postural stability are indicators of community level ambulation and may be a valuable measure of disability.

Objectives: to investigate the relation between the distribution of weight on both lower extremities and gait speed in children with spastic cerebral palsy.

Methods: Evaluation for weight distribution on both lower limbs and speed during gait for sixty children with spastic diplegia and forty-five children with hemiplegia was carried out by the Biodex gait trainer.