Effect of Nordic Walking on Gait-asymmetry Patterns in Children With Hemiparesis

Cerebral Palsy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Nordic Walking on Gait-asymmetry Patterns in Children With Hemiparesis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05644652
• Other study ID #: Nordic walking
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: November 2022
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: Amira M Abd-elmonem, PhD
• Phone: 01155553316
• Email: Dramira.salim2020[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Nordic walking is a physical activity consisting of walking with poles similar to ski poles. The poles are designed for the purpose of activating the upper body during walking. The poles are equipped with rubber or spike tips and the walking itself resembles.

Description:

Compared to normal walking in Nordic walking there is a stronger involvement of the upper body. Furthermore, by using the poles, the muscles in the upper body can be activated, and the length of each step taken is supposedly increased, resulting in a faster gait .

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: January 30, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Years to 10 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Their age will range from 6-10 years, from both sexes.
• Level I, II and III of gross motor functional classification system (GMFCS) (Jooyeon et al., 2011)
• Grade 1 and 1+ spasticity according to the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS). (Cloptonetal et al., 2005).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Uncontrolled epilepsy.
• Mental retardation or autistic features.
• Significant visual or auditory problems according to medical reports (audio-vestibular and ophthalmic examination),
• Structural or fixed soft tissue deformities of the lower and/or upper extremities.
• Neurological or orthopedic surgery in the past 12 months in the lower and/or upper extremities.
• Botox injection in the lower and/or upper extremities in the past 6 months.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cerebral Palsy
• Paresis

Intervention

Other:
• designed physical therapy program
it will be applied for for 60 min weekly for 3 successive months in the form of three sets of exercises (20 minutes each) as follows: Flexibility exercises to restore joint mobility of soft tissues. Static and dynamic balance exercises Functional strengthening exercises. Functional gait training.
• Nordic walking
it will be conducted according to the guidelines of the International Nordic Walking Federation

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Assessment of gait	The gait parameters will be assessed by kinovea software. Kinovea, free 2D motion analysis software, was created in 2009 via the non-profit collaboration of several researchers, athletes, coaches and programmers from all over the world. It enables the analysis of distances, angles, coordinates and spatial-temporal parameters frame by frame from a video recording. These measurements can be made from different perspectives, since the software carries out calibrations in non-perpendicular planes to the camera-object line analyzed. spatio-temporal parameters will be measured	after 3 successive months