The goal of this work is to improve clinical diagnosis and treatment of gait abnormalities in children with cerebral palsy. The LSMC lab provides clinical gait analysis as part of routine care for children with cerebral palsy. Clinical gait analysis provides quantitative evaluation of a child’s gait abnormality compared to typically developing children. Gait abnormality indices derived from 3-D motion capture data are used by researchers and clinicians to evaluate the severity of gait abnormalities at baseline, and the efficacy of clinical interventions targeting these gait abnormalities in children with cerebral palsy. The long-term goal is to learn from these clinical gait data to predict if a clinical intervention will be successful in a particular child, maximizing the benefits and minimizing the costs and discomfort for children with cerebral palsy.
Collaborators:
Catherine Mazzola, MD
Director of Pediatric Neurological Surgery
NJ Pediatric Neuroscience Institute
JenFu Cheng, MD
Section Chief, Physiatry
Children’s Specialized Hospital
Assistant Professor, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School
Assistant Clinical Professor, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Folorunsho Edobor-Osula, MD MPH
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School
