If you are into reading scientific studies on the efficacy of surgery to improve muscle strength in patients with a cerebral palsy diagnosis then here is a new one.

Muscle strength changes following multi-level surgery in cerebral palsy and the impact of rehabilitation on functional recovery are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to quantify lower limb muscle strength changes in children with spastic diplegia after multi-level orthopaedic surgery and to compare the efficacy of progressive resistance strengthening (RS) versus active exercise (AE).Twenty children with spastic diplegia (mean age 12.5 years) participated in this prospective randomised controlled trial

This is a link to the introduction.  To read the full article you will already have to have a reader that gets you into Elsevier.

Recovery of muscle strength following multi-level orthopaedic surgery in diplegic cerebral palsy

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