Best Paper Winners 2022

This award is presented annually to the authors of the best scientific paper. The highest scoring abstracts are nominated as candidates for the best paper award in the programme for the meeting and the oral presentations are assessed during the meeting. The award includes expedited publication in Gait & Posture and registration for attendance of the principal author at following year’s main congress.

ESMAC 2022, Dublin, Ireland

1st Jente Willaert

KU Leuven,Movement sciences, Leuven, Belgium

Increased muscle responses to balance perturbations in children with cerebral palsy

2nd Mark McMulkin

Shriners Children’s, Motion Analysis Center, Spokane, USA

Outcomes of intensive versus minimal spasticity management for individuals with cerebral palsy gait: outcomes for a long-term multi-center study

2nd Nathalie De Beukelaer

KU Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Pellenberg, Belgium

Longitudinal muscle growth in young children with spastic cerebral palsy: evolution of medial gastrocnemius muscle volume