Eirini Papageorgiou1, Angela Nieuwenhuys2, Ines Vandekerckhove2, Anja Van Campenhout3, Els Ortibus4, Kaat Desloovere5. 1. KU Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Research Group for Neurorehabilitation (eNRGy), Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: eirini.papageorgiou@kuleuven.be. 2. KU Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Research Group for Neurorehabilitation (eNRGy), Leuven, Belgium. 3. KU Leuven, Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ Systems, Leuven, Belgium; University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Orthopedics, Leuven, Belgium. 4. KU Leuven, Department of Development and Regeneration, Organ Systems, Leuven, Belgium. 5. KU Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Research Group for Neurorehabilitation (eNRGy), Leuven, Belgium; University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Orthopedics, Clinical Motion Analysis Laboratory (CERM), Pellenberg, Belgium.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Gait classification systems (GCSs) aim to aid clinicians and researchers in categorizing the gait of pathological populations, with the intent to improve the communication between them, to support treatment planning and enable the evaluation of patients over time. Throughout the years, various GCSs have been defined for children with cerebral palsy (CP), which were first summarized in a systematic review published in 2007. RESEARCH QUESTION: The current systematic review aimed to: a) identify GCSs that have been more recently developed, b) appraise their methodological quality and c) specify the most commonly used multiple joint gait patterns for children with CP reported in literature. METHODS: Four databases (Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science) were searched until July 2017. Several forms of validity and the reliability of these studies were assessed according to the principles of the consensus-based standards for the selection of health measurement instruments checklist or criteria defined in the original review. All published GCSs were also scrutinized in order to identify multiple joint patterns that have reached a predefined level of consensus. RESULTS: Thirty-six studies were considered in this review, 15 of them being GCSs that were not included in the original review. The validity, reliability and clinical applicability of all GCSs was reported, including 3 studies from the original review. Six multiple joint patterns for children with CP reached a consensus in literature. CONCLUSION: Since the previous review, obvious progress has been made in the field of GCSs for CP, resulting in improved methodological quality of the majority of published GCSs. This encouraged the applicability of GCSs in clinical or research settings. The six reliable, valid and commonly used multiple joint patterns, emerging from this systematic review, may aid clinical and research applications and create a common language among healthcare providers.
BACKGROUND: Gait classification systems (GCSs) aim to aid clinicians and researchers in categorizing the gait of pathological populations, with the intent to improve the communication between them, to support treatment planning and enable the evaluation of patients over time. Throughout the years, various GCSs have been defined for children with cerebral palsy (CP), which were first summarized in a systematic review published in 2007. RESEARCH QUESTION: The current systematic review aimed to: a) identify GCSs that have been more recently developed, b) appraise their methodological quality and c) specify the most commonly used multiple joint gait patterns for children with CP reported in literature. METHODS: Four databases (Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science) were searched until July 2017. Several forms of validity and the reliability of these studies were assessed according to the principles of the consensus-based standards for the selection of health measurement instruments checklist or criteria defined in the original review. All published GCSs were also scrutinized in order to identify multiple joint patterns that have reached a predefined level of consensus. RESULTS: Thirty-six studies were considered in this review, 15 of them being GCSs that were not included in the original review. The validity, reliability and clinical applicability of all GCSs was reported, including 3 studies from the original review. Six multiple joint patterns for children with CP reached a consensus in literature. CONCLUSION: Since the previous review, obvious progress has been made in the field of GCSs for CP, resulting in improved methodological quality of the majority of published GCSs. This encouraged the applicability of GCSs in clinical or research settings. The six reliable, valid and commonly used multiple joint patterns, emerging from this systematic review, may aid clinical and research applications and create a common language among healthcare providers.
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