Gait Deterioration in Adolescents with Dravet Syndrome

Abstract

Researchers at the University of Melbourne, Australia studied prospectively changes in gait by age in patients with Dravet syndrome. Of 26 patients aged 2 to 34 years, 15 were male and 11 female, mean age 11.6 years; 23 had SCN1A mutations.

Keywords

• passive knee extension
• hip extension
• lower limb muscles