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The study investigated how the subjects, 18 children with spastic diplegia aged
7-14 years, attained sit-to-stand (STS). The children were divided into two
groups and three STS conditions: 1) those who could attain STS independently
(I-STS), 2) those who could not attain STS independently (D-STS), and 3) subjects
from the D-STS condition who could successfully attain STS with the walker
(W-STS). The results showed that I-STS had more mean maximum horizontal location
of the upper body and knee than the hip. All body segments of D-STS followed the
same model as the I-STS condition, but they moved with less magnitude than I-STS.
W-STS presented both pattern and magnitudes relatively similar to I-STS.
Furthermore, I-STS showed the highest mean maximum horizontal and vertical
velocities of body segments, when compared with the other STS conditions. W-STS
performed the mean maximum horizontal and vertical linear velocities of all
selected segments close to D-STS did.

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