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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">577</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ELECTRICAL STIMULATION IN ADDITION TO PASSIVE STRETCHING THAN ALONE PASSIVE STRETCHING ON SPASTICITY IN PATIENTS WITH SPASTIC DIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY CHILDREN&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ahmad</surname><given-names>Ghazi Sharique</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ali</surname><given-names>Md Haider</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Nath</surname><given-names>K. Sambhu</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sarfraz</surname><given-names>Md</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>39</fpage><lpage>44</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aim: An electrical stimulation and passive stretching were used to reduce spasticity in spastic diplegic cerebral palsy children patient.&#13;
Methodology: Intervention for four weeks which consisted of 30 minutes of electrical stimulation of antagonistic muscles and 30 seconds of passive stretching of the agonist muscles (bicep brachi) 3 times per week of spastic diplegic child patients. Pre and&#13;
Post treatment Spasticity of the bicep brachi was measured using the modified Ashworth scale.&#13;
Results: The mean value 1.43 of Group A post treatment was compared to the mean value 1.93 of Group B post treatment then the P value found to be 0.0057.&#13;
Conclusions: Spasticity of diplegic cerebral palsy children are greatly reduced by using electrical stimulation combined with passive stretching. This suggests that electrical stimulation with passive stretching are more reliant to reduce spasticity than alone passive stretching.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Electrical stimulation</kwd><kwd> Muscle spasticity</kwd><kwd> Diplegic cerebral palsy</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
