Open AccessRelationship Between Trunk Control and Balance in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Cross-Sectional Study
Author(s) -
Sivatejaa Panibatla,
Vijaya Kumar K,
Amitesh Narayan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2017/28388.10649
Subject(s) - gross motor function classification system , trunk , cerebral palsy , spastic , correlation , balance (ability) , quartile , medicine , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , spastic cerebral palsy , physical therapy , negative correlation , mathematics , statistics , biology , confidence interval , ecology , geometry
Trunk control is impaired in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) thus influencing their functional balance. However, there is a paucity of literature determining the relationship between trunk control and balance in children with CP.