Is Kinesio Taping Treatment Effective in Children With Cerebral Palsy?

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Cerebral palsy (CP) is defined as a non-progressive lesion of the immature brain. Children with CP may present with a variety of motor impairments.

The impaired upper limb function of children with cerebral palsy (CP) limits and restricts participation in activities of daily living.

Kinesio Taping (KT) is commonly used in sport injuries, in neurology and oncology patients following the surgical protocols, and for pediatric rehabilitation to reduce pain, facilitate or inhibit muscle activity, prevent injuries, reposition joints, aid the lymphatic system, support postural alignment, and improve proprioception. Kinesiotaping is a treatment that has not been studied much and can be applied in cerebral palsy. The tapes were grouped as elastic and rigid. In fact, there has been a few studies that investigates the effect of upper extremity elastic kinesiotaping. High methodological studies about its efficacy in this population are rare.

Clinical Trial Description

34 Children with cerebral palsy aged between 6-18 applied to Dokuz Eylül Üniversity Medical School Hospital Physical Medicine ve Rehabilitation Department will be included the study. Patients have diagnosed as CP with the subgroup of diplegic, hemiplegic, tetraplegic and mixt. The upper extremity side will be chosen as the affected side for the hemiplegic CP's and for diplegic, tetraplegic CP's the side of upper extremity which children have been used to but have obstacles in daily life. The chosen upper extremity side will be taped with the functional correction technique on the dorsum of the hand and forearm by clinician. Patients will be taped at least 2-3 hours a day every day and they will be also recomended dealing with the grasping and releasing activities in daily living at about 2-3 hours a day. In a way that every patient has to be the control of themselves, 1 week before kinesiotaping, immediately after kinesiotaping and 1 week after the period of kinesiotaping patients will be evaluated with box and block test, nine hole peg test, modified house clasification score and the active/passive wrist dorsiflexion range of motion. The investigator will also note the gross motor function clasification system level, dominant hand side and affected side, for chosen upper extremity side's zancolli clasification, modified aschwort scale of wrist and hand fingers, manual ability clasification system level for every patient. ;

Study Design

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT03819205
Study type	Interventional
Source	Dokuz Eylul University
Contact	Zeynep Tokel
Phone	+905068535386
Email	zeyneptkl343@gmail.com
Status	Recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	April 15, 2018
Completion date	March 10, 2019

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