Gait Problems in Cerebral Palsy: Identification, Patient Goals, and Surgical Treatment

Tom F Novacheck, M.D., Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Chair of the Cerebral Palsy Institute, Gillette Children’s, and Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Orthopedic Surgery.

Dr Novacheck is a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon at Gillette Children’s (St. Paul, Minnesota) since 1991 following his fellowship training in Paediatric Orthopaedics at Newington Children’s Hospital (Connecticut).  He has been a member of the Gillette/Connecticut Children’s/KU Leuven Gait Analysis Course Faculty since 1992 and course director when hosted in MN. At Gillette, he is Chair of the Cerebral Palsy Institute and is a professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota). His practice currently is focused on caring for individuals with cerebral palsy and hip dysplasia. He is past president of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Gait (AACPDM) in 2021-2022, past president of the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS) in 2001, and past Editor-in-Chief of Gait & Posture (1999-2002). His research interests include the analysis of normal and pathological walking, refinement and development of gait analysis techniques, and short and long-term outcomes assessment of treatment for cerebral palsy gait dysfunction and he has published more than 70 peer reviewed articles and 25 book chapters.

Steven E. Koop, M.D., Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon and Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School.

Dr Koop’s worked at Gillette Children’s for his entire career and focused on the care of children with neuromuscular conditions where he had the opportunity to follow children into adulthood. This continuity provided perspective on what it means to grow up with a neuromuscular condition, and it helped him learn what was important and helpful to his patients and their families. Through leadership roles at Gillette, he participated in the work of building collaborative multidisciplinary care teams.

Elizabeth R. Boyer, PhD
Clinical Scientist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Deven Carroll, MD
Orthopedic Surgery Resident, Henry Ford Health, Detroit, MI, USA.

Trenton Cooper, DO, MS, FAAOS
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Alison J. Dittmer, MD
Hip Preservation Surgeon, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Michelle Engberg, PT, DPT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Heather Forst, MA, OTR/L, BCP
Occupational Therapist, Clinical Educator, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Andrew G. Georgiadis, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Clinical Manager of James R. Gage Center for Gait and Motion Analysis, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Michael T. Healy, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Chief of Orthopedic Surgery, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Peter Kim, MD, PhD
Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Medical Director, Surgical Services and Neurosurgery, Craniofacial, and ENT, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Steven E. Koop, MD
Retired Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Jennifer Laine, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Medical Director, Research, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Daniel J. Miller, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Kyle Miller, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Nickolas Nahm, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Jennifer Nelson, DPT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Jackie Norling, PT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Tom F. Novacheck, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Chair, Cerebral Palsy Institute, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Therese O’Bright, DPT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Jackie Price, PT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Rocio H. Riveros-Charry, DPT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Amy Schulz, MS, PT
Physical Therapist, Clinical Educator, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Emmalynn J. Sigrist, DO
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Sue Sohrweide, PT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Jean L. Stout, PT, PhD
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Stephen Sundberg, MD
Retired Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul; Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Katie Walt, DPT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Marcie Ward, MD
Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Physician, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Elizabeth W. Weber, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Shriners Children’s New England, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.

Katie Wilkins, DPT
Physical Therapist, Gillette Children’s, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Hank Chambers, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, David Sutherland Director of Cerebral Palsy Research; Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.

Jon Davids, MD
Assistant Chief, Orthopedic Surgery; Medical Director, Motion Analysis Laboratory, Shriners Hospitals for Children; Ben Ali Chair in Pediatric Orthopedics, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.

Thomas Dreher, MD
Professor and Chief, Pediatric Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department, University Children’s Hospital and Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.

Kerr Graham, MD, FRCS (Ed), FRACS
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Melbourne; Director, Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

Robert Kay, MD
Chief, Division of Orthopedic Surgery; Director, Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center; Director, Neuromuscular Program; Associates Chair in Orthopedics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; Clinical Scholar and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

James McCarthy, MD, MHCM
Director, Division of Pediatric Orthopedics; Medical Director, Motion Analysis Laboratory; Co-Director, Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Center; Alvin Crawford Chair in Pediatric Orthopedics, Cincinnati Children’s; Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Unni Narayanan, MBBS, MSc, FRCS(C)
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon and Professor, Departments of Surgery & Rehabilitation Sciences Institute Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto; Senior Associate Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program, The Hospital for Sick Children; Adjunct Senior Scientist, Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Kristan Pierz, MD
Orthopedist, Orthopedics, Connecticut Children’s; Medical Director, Center for Motion Analysis, Hartford, CT, USA.

Jason Rhodes, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon; Director of Cerebral Palsy and Neuromuscular Program, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.

Erich Rutz, MD, PhD, FRACS
Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics; Bob
Dickens Chair, Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Melbourne; Clinical Director, Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory; Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Jeffrey Shilt, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon and Medical Director, Motion Analysis Lab; Professor of Orthopedics and Scoliosis Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s, TX, USA.

Benjamin Shore, MD, MPH, FRCSC Associate Professor, Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, Cerebral Palsy and Spasticity Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

M. Wade Shrader, MD
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon, Orthopedics, Nemours
Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE, USA.

Timothy Theologis, MSc, PhD, FRCS
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals; Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford; Research Professor, Oxford Brooks University, Oxford, UK.

Anja Van Campenhout, MD, PhD
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospital
Pellenberg, Leuven, Belgium.