Lateral hamstring transfer and gait improvement in the cerebral palsy patient.
A retrospective analysis of twenty-three spastic patients who underwent forty-three transfers of the semitendinosus muscle to the lateral intramuscular septum and of the semimembranosus muscle to the biceps is presented. Decreased knee-flexion deformity as well as improved walking function were achieved in 91 per cent. An unsatisfactory result was associated with complications of the procedure. Only one knee of the forty-three that were operated on showed late genu recurvatum. This procedure appears to be both effective and relatively free of late comlications.
D000293:Adolescent; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013709:Tendon Transfer / Q000379:methods*; D013710:Tendons / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors