Thoracic
Function
- no hip flexion
- no voluntary leg movement
Effect
- no ambulation
- hip flexed and ER
- feet equinovarus
L1
Function
- grade 2 psoas
Effect
- no ambulation
- hip adducted and flexed
- feet equinovarus
L2
Function
- grade 3 psoas
Effect
- hip adducted / flexed
- knee flexed
- feet equinovarus
L3
Function
- grade 3 quads
Effect
- hip adducted and flexed / highest risk hip dislocation
- household ambulator only with KAFO
- knee recurvatum / no hamstrings
- foot equinovarus
L4
Function
- > grade 3 quads
- medial hamstrings
- tibialis anterior grade 3
- AFO
Effect
- hip adducted / flexed
- reasonable ambulation with AFO
- knee extended
- foot cavovarus
L5
Function
- lateral hamstrings
- grade 3 abductors
Effect
- hip flexed but not adducted
- community ambulator in AFO
- calcaneocavus foot
S1
Function
- grade 3 power T achilles
Effect
- claw toes, poor sensation
- still get calcaneus as weak T Achilles