Comparison between semitendinosus transfer to distal femur and medial hamstrings surgical lengthening for treatment of flexed knee gait in cerebral palsy.

CONCLUSION: In the present study, patients who received STTX exhibited more improvement of knee extension at clinical examination and during gait than those who underwent to STL; however, STTX was not effective to prevent the increase of APT after flexed knee gait treatment. PMID: 32167417 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: J Orthop Surg (Hong Kong) Source Type: research