Lateral hamstring transfer and gait improvement in the cerebral palsy patient
Ray, R.L.; Ehrlich, M.G.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume 61(5): 719-723
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-9355 PMID: 457714 Document Number: 147945
A retrospective analysis of twenty-three spastic patients who underwent forty-three transfers of the semitendinosus muscle to the lateral intramuscular septum and of the semimembranosus muscle to the biceps is presented. Decreased knee-flexion deformity as well as improved walking function were achieved in 91 per cent. An unsatisfactory result was associated with complications of the procedure. Only one knee of the forty-three that were operated on showed late genu recurvatum. This procedure appears to be both effective and relatively free of late comlications.