How much value is muscle charting? A study of the relation between neonatal assessment of muscle power and later mobility in children with spina bifida defects.
95 syrviving children with spina bifida were examined between the age of 3 to 8 years and their mobility assessed in relation to the charting of muscle power in the neonatal period. There was no good correlation between these two methods of assessment and the value of repeated muscle charting by the physiotherapists is questioned.
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D009132:Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016136:Spina Bifida Occulta / Q000503:physiopathology*