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Examination

Examination

 

Aids 

 

AFO / KAFO

- ankle foot orthosis

- knee ankle foot orthosis

 

GRAFO

- ground reaction AFO

 

Kaye walker 

- seat on it

- co-ordinates walking

 

Reciprocal Gait Orthoses

 

Sitting

 

Short adducted leg - dislocated hip

Scoliosis

Hemiplegia

Problems

 

1.  Lower limb

 

All walk

- Ankle > knee > hip

 

Ankle

- most require operations for ankles

 

LLD

- unilateral underdevelopment

- LLD 0-5cm (average 2cm)

 

2.  Lower limb

- one handedness

- decrease movement in swing

- astereogenesis

- usual upper limb contractures

 

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