Barbara Kelly

Feasibility of An Assessment Protocol for Serial Casting Following Botox Injections to Treat Equinus Gait in Children with CP
Barbara Kelly, Dr. Marilyn MacKay-Lyons and collaborators at Dalhousie and the IWK examined the feasibility of an ICF-based assessment protocol in terms of acceptability, practicality, inter-rater reliability and responsiveness of the selected outcome measures to change over time.
Read the complete article: Assessment Protocol for Serial Casting After Botulinum Toxin A Injections to Treat Equinus Gait [PDF - 942kB].

Determining A Casting Protocol Post-Botox Injections to Treat Equinus Gait in Children with CP
A randomized controlled trial involving Barbara Kelly and her collaborators at Dalhousie and the IWK tests an ICF-based assessment protocol in the treatment of children with CP.

Ethics of Involving Children in Health-Related Research: Applying a Decision-Making Framework to a Clinical Trial
This paper by Barbara Kelly and Dr. Marilyn MacKay-Lyons explores ethical issues related to the involvement of children in health-related research through the application of a conceptual model (the Miller and Kenny framework) to a current clinical trial on casting protocols for equinus gait of children with cerebral palsy (CP).
Read the complete article that appeared in Physiotherapy Canada 2010 [410 kB].