Muscle wasting, or sarcopenia, is most often associated with physiological ageing. In an original experiment, South Korean researchers tried to measure it in children, adolescents and even young adults (up to the age of 25) suffering from various neurological pathologies:
- 121 patients, including 56 boys, took part in the study, with 72 suffering from cerebral palsy,
- the surface area of the two psoas muscles was calculated by CT scan of the lower lumbar region (at the level of the third lumbar vertebra),
- sarcopenia was thus observed even at an early age,
- particularly in non-ambulant subjects suffering from scoliotic deformities.
