Program of Research

Author:

Tandy Hastings-Ison's

Citations:

1. Hastings-Ison, Tandy & Blackburn, Christine & Opie, Nicholas & Graham, Kerr & Rawicki, Hyam & Wolfe, Rory & Simpson, Pam & Baker, Richard. (2013). Reproducibility of an instrumented measure for passive ankle dorsiflexion in conscious and anaesthetized children with cerebral palsy. Developmental medicine and child neurology. 56. 10.1111/dmcn.12276. 

2. Hastings-Ison, T., Blackburn, C., Rawicki, B., Fahey, M., Simpson, P., Baker, R., & Graham, K. (2016). Injection frequency of botulinum toxin A for spastic equinus: a randomized clinical trial. Developmental medicine and child neurology, 58(7), 750–757. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.12962

3. Hastings-Ison, T., Sangeux, M., Thomason, P., Rawicki, B., Fahey, M., & Graham, H. K. (2018). Onabotulinum toxin-A (Botox) for spastic equinus in cerebral palsy: a prospective kinematic study. Journal of children's orthopaedics, 12(4), 390–397. https://doi.org/10.1302/1863-2548.12.180044

Summary:

Tandy Hastings-Ison is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy. After looking at most of the research articles he wrote or was apart of, I noticed that majority of the papers were in regard to botulinum toxin or botox. Most of the research of botox was combined with spastic cerebral palsy. So I assume that one of his goals is to see how administering botox can be beneficial to gait in patients with cerebral palsy. I was unable to locate his actual website but I found a few websites that complied most of his research. 

The three article I found revolve around cerebral palsy, passive ankle dorsiflexion and the administeration of botulinum toxin. The first article set out to analyze the reproducibility of an instrumented measure for passive ankle dorsiflexion in conscious and anaesthetized children with cerebral palsy. The second article investigated the effects of botulinum toxin injections (either every 4 months or 12 months) in cerebral palsy patients, they measured passive ankle dorsiflexion. A fixed 6U/kg dose of Botox was injected into the gastrocnemius muscle of both limbs in children with diplegia and the gastrocsoleus of the affected limb in children with hemiplegia, under mask anaesthesia. The third article builds onto the last article by doing a gait analysis four weeks before and four weeks after Botulinum toxin-A injection in the cerebral palsy patients. These three acrticles build off one another by 1) expanding research of passive ankle dorsiflexion with regard to using botulinum toxin 2) expanding general research on cerebral palsy 3) completing another study regarding botulinum toxin and passive ankle dorsiflexion but adding the gait component and different placements of the injection based on the type cerebral palsy paralysis.