TY - JOUR AU - Pool, Dayna AU - Valentine, Jane AU - Bear, Natasha AU - Donnelly, Cyril J. AU - Elliott, Catherine AU - Stannage, Katherine PY - 2015 DA - 2015/10/12 TI - The orthotic and therapeutic effects following daily community applied functional electrical stimulation in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial JO - BMC Pediatrics SP - 154 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - The purpose of this study was to determine the orthotic and therapeutic effects of daily community applied FES to the ankle dorsiflexors in a randomized controlled trial. We hypothesized that children receiving the eight-week FES treatment would demonstrate orthotic and therapeutic effects in gait and spasticity as well as better community mobility and balance skills compared to controls not receiving FES. SN - 1471-2431 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0472-y DO - 10.1186/s12887-015-0472-y ID - Pool2015 ER -