Seung Yeol Lee, Soon-Sun Kwon, Chin Youb Chung, Kyoung Min Lee, Young Choi, Tae Gyun Kim, Woo Cheol Shin, In Ho Choi, Tae-Joon Cho, Won Joon Yoo, Moon Seok Park
BACKGROUND: Although several studies have reported on the outcomes of rectus femoris transfer (RFT), few have investigated the multiple factors that could affect the results. Therefore, we evaluated the outcomes of RFT and analyzed factors that influence improvement and annual change in knee motion after surgery in patients with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS: We reviewed ambulatory patients with CP who were followed up after they had undergone RFT as part of a single-event multilevel surgery (SEMLS) and who had undergone preoperative and postoperative three-dimensional (3D) gait analysis between January 1995 and December 2012...
2014: Gait & Posture