title: Standing Programs to Promote Hip Flexibility in Children With Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the effects of a standing program on the range of motion (ROM) of hip abduction in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy.
  
  
  METHODS
  The participants were 13 children, Gross Motor Functional Classification System level III, who received physical therapy and a daily standing program using a custom-fabricated stander from 12 to 14 months of age to the age of 5 years. Hip abduction ROM was goniometrically assessed at baseline and at 5 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Baseline hip abduction was 42° at baseline and 43° at 5 years.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This small difference was not clinically significant, but did demonstrate that it was possible to maintain hip abduction ROM in the spastic adductor muscles of children with cerebral palsy with a daily standing program during the children's first 5 years of development.
authors.affiliation: Physical Therapy Department (Ms Macias-Merlo and Dr Bagur-Calafat), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; Early Intervention Public Service of Barcelona (Ms Macias-Merlo), Barcelona, Spain; Biostatistics Department (Dr Girabent-Farrés), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; Physical Therapy and Motion Analysis Laboratory (Dr Stuberg), Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.
authors.forename: Lourdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Macias-Merlo
authors.forename: Caridad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bagur-Calafat
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Girabent-Farrés
authors.forename: Wayne A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Stuberg
mesh_terms: D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006615:Hip / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular