RELIABILITY OF TESTS TO DETERMINE PEAK AEROBIC POWER, ANAEROBIC POWERAND ISOKINETIC MUSCLE STRENGTH IN CHILDREN WITH SPASTIC CEREBRAL-PALSY

Authors
VANDENBERGEMONS RJG VANBAAK MA DEBARBANSON DC SPETH L SARIS WHM
Citation
Rjg. Vandenbergemons et al., RELIABILITY OF TESTS TO DETERMINE PEAK AEROBIC POWER, ANAEROBIC POWERAND ISOKINETIC MUSCLE STRENGTH IN CHILDREN WITH SPASTIC CEREBRAL-PALSY, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 38(12), 1996, pp. 1117-1125
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00121622
Volume
38
Issue
12
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1117 - 1125
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-1622(1996)38:12<1117:ROTTDP>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Test-retest reliability of measurements of peak aerobic power (cycle e rgometer), anaerobic power (cycle ergometer), and isokinetic muscle st rength of the knee (Cybex) was established in 12 young children with c erebral palsy (spastic diplegia/tetraplegia; mean age 8.8 years) and i n addition in 39 healthy controls (mean age 9.2 years). The cycle ergo meter tests were found to be reliable in both the group with CP and th e control group (test-retest correlations varying from 0.72 to 0.96). The isokinetic strength test in the group with CP was only reliable at 30 degrees/s, whereas in the control group high test-retest correlati ons were also found at 600 degrees/s and 1200 degrees/s.