Effect of Low Level Laser Therapy on Hamstring Muscle Tightness and Calf Muscle Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy Children.

Cerebral Palsy Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Effect of Low Level Laser Therapy on Hamstring Muscle Tightness and Calf Muscle Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy Children.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04789629
• Other study ID #: NILES
• Secondary ID: our team
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: national institute of laser enhanced sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background :Spasticity is a motor disorder in children with cerebral palsy (CP) Cp is a non progress lesion in unmature brain lead to a group of chronic disorders that affect movement and posture development, may be accompanied by epilepsy, secondary musculoskeletal problems, deformaties and disturbances of sensation, perception, cognition, communication, and behavior Few studies demonstrate effectiveness of laser therapies in spasticity in cp.

Methodology : This study is randomize control trail aimes to evaluate the effect of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on the spasticity of hamstring and calf muscle in children with CP over 12 session of intermittent laser exposures. Muscle tone , gross motor function, rang of motion (rom ) and poplital angle will evaluate before and after laser irradiation in 30 children with CP both geneder aged between two to six years old diaplegic clidren , exclusion children who take botox or done surgery . Muscles will irradiated with low-intensity diode laser pulses of 808-nm wavelength three times per week over one month follow up for one month.

Description:

This is a randomized controlled study, in which the 30 children with diaplegic randomly divide into control and study groups by excel sheat on computer, each group include 15child. Each child will receive laser at a frequency of three sessions per week for 12 session, in addition to conventional physiotherapy program, while the control group have 15 child will receive conventional physiotherapy. Four variables will choose to detect the effect of laser therapy: (1) muscle tone, (2) range of motion (ROM) , (3) gross movement,(4) poplital angle assessment . These values will recorde in both groups before starting treatment and after the treatment period and after one month of stop treatment .

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Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: February 1, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• spastic diaplegic children aged between 2 to 6years have spastic hamstring and calf muscle .

Exclusion Criteria:

• for post-operative children , children who take botox, children with contracture or fixed deformity

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cerebral Palsy
• Muscle Spasticity
• Paralysis

Intervention

Device:
• low level laser therapy
3 session per week laser with exercises

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Out Clinic of Physical Therapy Faculty	Giza	El Dokki

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
national institute of laser enhanced sciences

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Modified Ashworth scale	scale to assets muscle tone	one month of treatment
Primary	Modified Ashworth scale	scale to assets muscle tone	2 months
Primary	rom by Goniometer	clinical assessment	one month of treatment
Primary	rom by Goniometer	clinical assessment	2 months
Primary	poplital angle test	clinical test	one month of treatment
Primary	poplital angle test	clinical test	2 months
Secondary	gross motor	GMFS88	one month of treatment
Secondary	gross motor	GMFS88	2 months