CONTENTS -- AUTHORS' APPOINTMENTS -- PREFACE -- Section 1. TYPICAL MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT -- 1.1 THE NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT Warwick J. Peacock -- 1.2 MUSCULOSKELETAL GROWTH Steven E. Koop -- 1.3 NORMAL GAIT James R. Gage and Michael H. Schwartz -- Section 2. GAIT PATHOLOGY IN INDIVIDUALS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW James R. Gage -- 2.1 MECHANISMS AND MANIFESTATIONS OF NEONATAL BRAIN INJURY Adre J. du Plessis -- 2.2 THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SPASTICITY Warwick J. Peacock -- 2.3 BASAL GANGLIA INJURYAND RESULTING MOVEMENT DISORDERS Leland Albright -- 2.4 CONSEQUENCES OF BRAIN INJURY ON MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT James R. Gage and Michael H. Schwartz -- 2.5 MUSCLE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN CEREBRAL PALSY Adam P. Shortland, Nicola R. Fry, Anne E. McNee and Martin Gough -- 2.6 CLASSIFICATION OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND PATTERNS OF GAIT PATHOLOGY Sylvia Ounpuu, Adrienne Harvey and H. Kerr Graham -- 2.7 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AMBULATION IN CEREBRAL PALSY Steven E. Koop -- Section 3. PATIENT ASSESSMENT: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW James R. Gage -- 3.1 CLINICAL ASSESSMENT Joyce P. Trost -- 3.2 FOOT BIOMECHANICS AND PATHOLOGY Sue Sohrweide -- 3.3 NEUROIMAGING OF THE BRAIN Beverly Wical -- 3.4 RADIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF THE PATIENT WITH CEREBRAL PALSY Kevin Walker -- 3.5 GAIT ANALYSIS: KINEMATICS, ELECTROMYOGRAPHY, OXYGEN CONSUMPTION AND PEDOBAROGRAPHY James R. Gage and Jean L. Stout -- 3.6 MODELING AND SIMULATION OF NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL GAIT Jennifer L. Hicks, Michael H. Schwartz and Scott L. Delp -- INTERLUDE: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF TREATMENT PHILOSOPGY James R. Gage -- Section 4: NON-OPERATIVE TREATMENT -- 4.1 PHYSICAL THERAPY Susan Murr and Kathryn J. Walt -- 4.2 ORTHOSES Tom F. Novacheck, Gary J. Kroll, George Gent, Adam Rozumalski, Camilla Beattie and Michael H. Schwartz.

4.3 PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT WITH ORAL MEDICATIONS Marcie Ward -- 4.4 PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT WITH BOTULINUM TOXIN Guy Molenaers and Kaat Desloovere -- Section 5. OPERATIVE TREATMENT -- 5.1 TREATMENT OF SPASTICITY Linda E. Krach -- 5.2 TREATMENT OF SPASTICITY WITH SELECTIVE DORSAL RHIZOTOMY Joyce P. Trost, Mary E. Dum, Linda E. Krach, Nellecke G. Langerak, Tom F. Novacheck and Michael H. Schwartz -- 5.3 NEUROSURGICAL TREATMENT OF DYSTONIA Leland Albright -- 5.4 REHABILITATION FOLLOWING SPASTICITY REDUCTION Linda E. Krach -- 5.5 ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT OF MUSCLE CONTRACTURES Tom F. Novacheck -- 5.6 ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT OF LONG BONE TORSIONS James R. Gage -- 5.7 ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT OF HIP PROBLEMS IN CEREBRAL PALSY Henry G. Chambers -- 5.8 ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT OF FOOT DEFORMITIES Jon R. Davids -- 5.9 POSTOPERATIVE CARE AND REHABILITATION Steven E. Koop and Susan Murr -- 5.10 GENERAL ISSUES OF RECURRENCE WITH GROWTH James R. Gage -- 5.11 TREATMENT OF CROUCH GAIT Jean L. Stout, Tom F.Novacheck, James R. Gage and Michael H. Schwartz -- Section 6. ASSESSMENT OF OUTCOME -- MEASUREMENT TOOLS AND METHODS Pam Thomason, Adrienne Harvey and H. Kerr Graham -- 6.2 CONSEQUENCES OF INTERVENTIONS Pam Thomason and H. Kerr Graham -- EPILOGUE -- INDEX.