The Relationship Between Medial Gastrocnemius Lengthening Properties and Stretch Reflexes in Cerebral Palsy

• Main Authors: Lynn Bar-On (Author), Barbara M. Kalkman (Author), Francesco Cenni (Author), Simon-Henri Schless (Author), Guy Molenaers (Author), Constantinos N. Maganaris (Author), Alfie Bass (Author), Gill Holmes (Author), Gabor J. Barton (Author), Thomas D. O'Brien (Author), Kaat Desloovere (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Stretch reflex hyperactivity in the gastrocnemius of children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) is commonly evaluated by passively rotating the ankle joint into dorsiflexion at different velocities, such as applied in conventional clinical spasticity assessments. However, surface electromyography (sE...