Title: Some gross motor features of Children with spastic cerebral palsy at the National Children’s Hospital in 2018
Abstract: Aim: To describe some gross motor features of children with Spastic cerebralpalsy at the NationalChildren’s Hospital in 2018Methods: A cross -sectional study combined with quantitative method was conducted on 112 patients withSpastic cerebralpalsy, using GMFCS scale.Results: Gross motor according to GMFCS: 54,5% of cases at level 5; 21,4% of cases at level 4 and 24,1%of cases at level 3. There were no distinction between thepercentage of gross motor level based on GMFCS andfeatures of age, gender, birth weight, gestational age at birth, types of birth (p>0,05). There were a statisticallysignificant relationship between gross motor according to GMFCS and time of palsy and spastic cerebraldiagnosis (p<0,05).Conlussion: Most of the patients have gross motor at level 5 according to GMFCS, the result shows arelationship between gross motor and time of palsy and spastic cerebral diagnosis.