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Effects of Flywheel Exercise on Muscle and Walking Function in Teenagers and Young Adults With Cerebral Palsy — CP-Flywheel  

Cerebral Palsy Clinical Trial

Official title:
Effects of Flywheel Resistance Exercise Training on Muscle and Walking Function in Teenagers and Young Adults With Cerebral Palsy

Clinical Trial Summary

The main purpose of this project is to improve physical function and muscle health in teenagers and young adults with cerebral palsy (CP) by using an eccentric-overload resistance exercise model

Specific aims

1. To compare the efficacy of eccentric-overload vs. weight stack resistance exercise in inducing muscle, functional and gait performance adaptations in teenagers with CP.

2. To increase force, power and muscle mass in the lower limbs of patients with cerebral palsy.

3. To improve gross motor function, balance and gait through eccentric-overload resistance exercise in teenagers suffering from cerebral palsy.

We hypothesize that the time-effective flywheel resistance exercise paradigm will result in greater gains in muscle mass and function in teenagers with CP, when compared with conventional weight-stack technology. Importantly, we believe these adaptations will be translated into enhanced gross motor function, balance and gait performance.

Forty teenagers and young adults (age range 16-23 yr) with spastic CP will be recruited. They will be randomly assigned to flywheel (FL; n=20) or weight-stack (WS; n=20) resistance exercise. During 8 weeks, all the teenagers will follow a standard resistance exercise training program within the Stockholm Habilitation Center system. In addition, patients will perform either flywheel (FL group) or conventional (WS group) leg press resistance exercise twice per week. Muscle force, power and activity (electromyography; EMG), leg extension lag, co-contraction, balance, functional mobility, gait quality, and muscle and fat thickness of lower extremities are assessed in all patients before and after the 8-week intervention (Fig. 1).

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT03124628
Study type Interventional
Source Karolinska Institutet
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Status Withdrawn
Phase N/A
Start date March 1, 2017
Completion date March 2018
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