Weight Distribution Asymmetry in Relation to Speed During Gait in Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy.

Gait, Spastic Clinical Trial

Official title:

Weight Distribution Asymmetry in Relation to Speed During Gait in Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04636424
• Other study ID #: correlation study
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 3, 2019
• Est. completion date: November 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: November 2020
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background: Improving walking ability is one of the major concerns in therapeutic interventions for children with cerebral palsy. Aim: determine the relation between the weight distributed on both lower limb and speed during walking.

Description:

sixty children with spastic diplegia (group A) and forty-five with hemiparesis ( group B) with age ranged from ten to twelve, they had spasticity grade 1 and 1+ according to modified ashworth scale and they were able to walk with assistance (level II on Gross Motor Classification System).Evaluation was held by the Biodex gait trainer for measuring weight distribution on both lower limbs and speed during gait to determine if there was a relation between weight distribution asymmetry and the speed of gait of those children

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 114
• Est. completion date: November 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: March 5, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 10 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

The selection criteria to the diplegic group were as follows:

1. children diagnosed as spastic diplegia or hemiplegia;

2. the ability to stand independently without support for not less than 30 seconds;

3. the ability to walk independently; a classification of level II in the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS);

4. and capability to understand simple verbal commands.

Exclusion criteria:

1. Participants were excluded if they were treated for lower limbs orthopedic surgical or with botulinum toxin injection within the last 6 months

2. or if they had fixed lower limb deformity.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cerebral Palsy
• Gait Disorders, Neurologic
• Gait, Spastic
• Muscle Spasticity

Intervention

Other:
• assesment of gait
speed and weight distribution during gait

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Faculty of Physical Therapy,Cairo University	Cairo	Giza

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

References & Publications (1)

Nahla M. Ibrahim, Mai Elsayed Abbass. EFFECT OF PEDAL TRAINING ON GAIT SPEED IN CHILDREN WITH HEMIPARETIC CEREBRAL PALSY.Int J Physiother Res 2017;5(6):2560-65. ISSN 2321-1822

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	speed of gait	the velocity of walking	12 weaks
Secondary	foot to foot distribution	weight loaded on each lower limb during gait assessment	12 weaks