Muscle Characteristics in Pediatric Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia vs. Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: An Exploratory Study

Muscle Characteristics in Pediatric Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia vs. Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: An Exploratory Study

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a neurological, genetic disorder that predominantly presents with lower limb spasticity and muscle weakness. Pediatric pure HSP types with infancy or childhood symptom onset resemble in clinical presentation to children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (SC...

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Main Authors: Nathalie De Beukelaer, Lynn Bar-On, Britta Hanssen, Nicky Peeters, Sandra Prinsen, Els Ortibus, Kaat Desloovere, Anja Van Campenhout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
hereditary spastic paraplegia
cerebral palsy
instrumented impairment assessments
ultrasound
muscle morphology
muscle volume
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.635032/full

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