Minimally Invasive SPML Surgery for Children with Cerebral Palsy: Program Development

Table 5

Pre- and postoperative comparisons of ankle equinus at toe-off, swing, terminal swing, and in stance using Wilcoxon signed-rank tests ( values), separated by right and left cases with positive and negative equinus in stance at baseline.

Ankle Results	Right value	Right effect size (Eta^2)	Left value	Left effect size (Eta^2)
Right positive equinus subjects (N = 12)
Ankle equinus, toe-off	Decrease	0.38	Decrease	0.78
Ankle equinus, swing	NS	NA	Improvement	0.68
Ankle equinus, terminal swing	Improvement	0.65	Improvement	0.62
Ankle equinus, in stance	Improvement	0.6	Improvement	0.7
Right negative equinus subjects (N = 5)	Right		Left
Ankle equinus, toe-off		NA		NA
Ankle equinus, swing		NA		NA
Ankle equinus, terminal swing	Decrease	0.67		NA
Ankle equinus, in stance		NA		NA