Maria K. Lebiedowska

TL;DR: A consensus meeting was held to establish terminology and definitions for 4 aspects of motor disorders that occur in children: weakness, reduced selective motor control, ataxia, and deficits of praxis to assist communication between clinicians, select homogeneous groups of children for clinical research trials, and facilitate the development of rating scales to assess improvement or deterioration with time.

TL;DR: The normal velocity of gait and the normal step length argue against a parkinsonian-type disturbance, whereas the clinical picture suggests a disturbance of the cerebellum.

TL;DR: The gait pattern of patients with cerebellar degeneration shows incoordination similar to that previously described for their multijoint limb motion.

TL;DR: The invariance of sway amplitude supports the view that the same activation patterns can be utilized by children aged 7-18, despite the changes in body dimensions, while the total area decreased nearly two-times.

TL;DR: The measurement of resistance and of muscle activation during passive motion and tendon reflexes shows potential to differentiate dystonia from spasticity in CP patients with a mixed form of hypertonia.