Variability of Energy-Consumption Measures in Children with Cerebral Palsy
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
- Vol. 18 (6), 738-742
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01241398-199811000-00008
Abstract
Oxygen consumption measurements made on five repeated tests from five children with cerebral palsy (CP) and five nondisabled children of similar age and size were collected using the Cosmed K2 (Cosmed, Rome, Italy) oxygen-analysis system at free-walking velocity. Oxygen cost, oxygen consumption, and physiological cost index (PCI) were measured. There were no statistically significant differences in the percentage of variability of oxygen cost, oxygen consumption, or PCI between the disabled and nondisabled populations. Oxygen cost was the most reliable oxygen-use measurement with an average percentage of variability of 13.2% for the CP population and 13.9% for the nondisabled population. Physiological cost index was found be the least reliable measurement with the average percentages of variabilities of the disabled and nondisabled populations of 20.3 and 20.5%, respectively. Thus because of oxygen cost's relatively low variability, it was the most sensitive measurement of change in gait efficiency.Keywords
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