Henry G. Chambers

TL;DR: In a retrospective review of 414 consecutive cases of iliac crest bone graft procedures performed at Brooke Army Medical Center from 1983 to 1993, 41 (10%) minor and 24 (5.8%) major complications were identified.

TL;DR: The literature supports the notion that, although spasticity is multifactorial and neural in origin, significant structural alterations in muscle also occur and an understanding of the specific changes that occur in the muscle and extracellular matrix may facilitate the development of new conservative or surgical therapies for this problem.

TL;DR: This paper showed that muscle tissue is stiffer in contracture compared to age-matched children, implicating the extracellular matrix (ECM) and titin, the major loadbearing protein within muscle fibres.

TL;DR: The objective of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine evidence reports is to provide the biomedical research and clinical practice communities with the current state of evidence about various interventions for the management of developmental disabilities.

TL;DR: It is shown that muscle tissue is stiffer in contracture compared to age‐matched children, implicating the extracellular matrix (ECM), however, titin, the major load‐bearing protein within muscle fibres, is not altered in contractures, and individual fibre stiffness is unaltered.