title: [Vertical stability of schoolchildren with spastic diplegia before and after complex physical rehabilitation].
abstract: The paper presents the results of a study of vertical stability of 18 children and teenagers (mean age 12.5) with spastic diplegia as observed before and after complex treatment including the use of the method of phase electrostimulation of muscles and of methods developed at the Physical Exercise Department, Pediatric Neurological Hospital No. 18. The patients were examined by Romberg's test on the KSK-123 stabilographic unit with open and closed eyes. The results testify indirectly to a treatment-conditioned improvement in the CNS and receptor apparatus as observed during regulation of the vertical posture balance in the examinees. Thus, with visual monitoring, the mean square deviation in the frontal plane dropped on the average by 48% and, without such monitoring, it went down by 34%; in the sagittal plane, the values decreased by 51% and 35%, respectively. The area of statokynesogram shrank by 38% with open eyes and by 27% with closed eyes. The posttreatment prevalence of sagittal fluctuations in the body's center of gravity as observed versus frontal fluctuations is also typical of the health condition of the examinees.
authors.forename: V T
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Kozhevnikova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D006801:Humans; D011187:Posture; D011434:Proprioception; D016896:Treatment Outcome