View clinical trials related to Cerebral Palsy.
Filter by:Cerebral palsy develops due to brain damage before, during and after birth. Motor control is impaired in individuals with cerebral palsy. Disturbances occur in muscle tone, mobility and body posture. There is no definitive treatment for cerebral palsy, but improvement in functions can be achieved with physiotherapy. Because of the covid-19 pandemic precautions, activity level has been decreasing in children with cerebral palsy, as in adults. Children experience physical, social and psychological problems caused by physical inactivity. Exercises and games that can be done comfortably in the house will positively affect the physical development of children and enable them to spend productive time by getting away from excessive technology, internet and smart phone usage, excessive screen time. The aim of this project; To ensure that children with cerebral palsy who need intense exercise and activity and who experience physical inactivity due to COVID-19 can exercise with telerehabilitation and to determine the effect of telerehabilitation on the quality of life, anxiety and depression levels of children with cerebral palsy and their caregivers. It will be compared to a control group that did not accept telerehabilitation but was recommended to exercise at home.
Barriers to keeping and maintaining fitness as a young person with a disability exist across many domains of access to community locations such as fitness centers, so looking outside of these establishments may be necessary to advance fitness. This study is aimed at piloting a program that would address some of these barriers by hosting a modified after school running program with an underserved population in an accessible way. There is a second option to participate outside of school.
The BORNTOGETTHERE consists of improving health programs for early detection and surveillance of Cerebral Palsy (CP) by implementing the first International Clinical Practice Guidelines (Novak et al, 2017) in multiple sites in Europe (Italy, Denmark, Netherlands), in low- and middle-income countries (Georgia, Sri Lanka) and hard to reach populations (Remote Queensland, QLD and Western Australia, WA). In addition, exploiting early detection of infants at very high risk of CP, the investigators will implement best-evidence knowledge on early intervention in CP, thereby improving the outcomes of the infants and of their caregivers.
The aim of our study is to compare the effects of NGT-based trunk training, video-based trunk training and video-based trunk training applied with Theratogs in children with hemiparetic type Cerebral Palsy.
Children with cerebral palsy have an increased risk of hip dislocation, which is a painful and severe complication of cerebral palsy. The 20-years evaluation of the Swedish surveillance programme shows that hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy can be prevented with regular clinical and radiographic examination and early intervention. We would like to determine the individual risk for hip displacement for Danish children with CP in The Danish Cerebral Palsy Follow-up Program. This could be a valuable clinical tool in deciding on further follow-up and treatment.
The aim is to describe the characteristics of children with cerebral palsy in Denmark. Furthermore, we want to focus on status of the children's hips.
Background: General movements (GMs) are endogenously generated movements of the entire body observable from the 9th week postmenstrual age to at least 20 weeks postterm age. The assessment of GMs, the GMA, is a method to differentiate between spontaneous normal vs. abnormal motor patterns based on visual Gestalt perception, and has proven to be a reliable tool to evaluate the integrity of the nervous system in early infancy. Trained GMA observers achieve an excellent inter-observer agreement, but this accuracy is known to decline when GMA is applied infrequently. Although specific changes in the quality of GMs are highly predictive for atypical neurodevelopmental trajectories, one pattern of GMs, the poor-repertoire, is still of low predictive power. Objectives: Tracking GMA observers' intrinsic and unconsciously applied analytic strategies may unravel hitherto unknown characteristics of GMs and Gestalt perception in clinical reasoning. We specifically aim to: detect parameters during the writhing movements period which differentiate normalising and deteriorating developmental trajectories (Aim 1); evaluate different strategies/modalities of expert guidance for clinical reasoning and develop novel didactical approaches for remote GMA training (remote visual and verbal guidance; Aim 2); create a database to provide expert-guided tutorials for remote clinical training, observer re-calibration, and self-evaluation for certified observers (Aim 3).
The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of 10-weeks leucine supplementation on muscle growth, metabolism, body composition, inflammation and wellbeing in adolescents and young adults with CP.
The aim of this cross-sectional study is to investigate the level of stress and quality of life in parents of children with developmental disabilities (Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, cerebral palsy) and parents of children chronic diseases (diabetes mellitus type 1, epilepsy, asthma) compared to parents of healthy children. The investigators will analyze the level of stress, quality of life, self-esteem, optimism, resilience, happiness, stigmatization, depression, anxiety, sleep quality, parenting challenges and some physiological indicators of the stress such as level of cortisol and heart rate variability. Also, the investigators will measure Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs) in the skin. The investigators assume that parents of children with developmental disabilities and chronic diseases have higher level of stress and lower quality of life compared to the parents of healthy children.
Many studies have reported that the prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) has been relatively stable and is mainly due to events before birth and therefore cannot be prevented. However, these studies were undertaken in populations born towards the end of the last century. There has since been significant improvement in both obstetrical and neonatal intensive care. The main aim is to investigate trends in the prevalence and clinical characteristics of children with CP in Norway born from 1996 to 2010 in order to gain a modern understanding of the panorama of CP in Norway. The investigators suspect that improved methods of obstetrical and neonatal care introduced in Norway during the last 20 years has resulted in a decrease in the prevalence of CP as well as in the proportion of children with severe CP subtypes and comorbidities. The long term aim is to improve the quality of pregnancy care and newborn medicine for children at risk of CP, and to ensure equal diagnostics and treatment of patients with CP, regardless of place of residence in Norway. For this project, the investigators will use data from three national health registers: The Cerebral Palsy Registry of Norway (CPRN), The Medical Birth Registry of Norway and The Norwegian Patient Registry (NPR). The use of data from these high quality health registries provides us with a unique opportunity to study our aims on a population level, as well as per health region/health trust.