TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed salim mohamed salim AU - Asmaa Osama Elsaied , AU - Elham Mohamed Abdelgafar , AU - Hebatallah Mohamed Kamal , TI - Universal exercise unit versus functional resisted training effect on muscle strength in spastic diaplegia / PY - 2020/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed salim mohamed salim , KW - Average Peak Force KW - Cerebral palsy KW - Diaplegia N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Physical Therapy for Growth and Developmental Disorders; Issued also as CD N2 - Purpose: to compare between the effect of Universal Exercise Unit and Functional resisted exercises on the strength of lower limb muscles in children with spastic diaplegia following participation in a physical therapy program which included Universal Exercise Unit strengthening program and Functional resisted training exercises; three times per week for three successive months. Subjects: Forty spastic diaplegic children of both sexes ( boys and girls), their ages ranged from to years old , chosen from outpatient clinic of Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University. They were randomly classified into two groups of equal number (Two study groups). Methods: peak force, Total work, Maximum work repetition, Average power, Agonist to antagonist ratio by using Biodex Isokinetic Dynamometer before and after the application of treatment program. Results: The results revealed statistically significant improvement in the treatment values for the two study groups (More improvement in study group B than study group A) in all measured variables ER -