Effect of Weight on Hip Excursion During Gait

Gait, Spastic Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Weight on Hip Excursion During Gait in Children With Diplegia

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05579535
• Other study ID #: weight during gait
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 3, 2022
• Est. completion date: October 7, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: October 2022
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background: Children with diplegia had considerably larger hip and knee excursion during gait cycle than did normal developing children. Objective: To investigate the effect of using weight around the ankle on hip excursion in children with diplegia.

Description:

Fifty children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy were assigned into two groups at random (A, B). Both groups had received the same prescribed exercise program with classical gait training for group A and gait training while using weight around ankle for group B. Treatment was conducted for one hour three sessions per week for successive 3 months. Two-dimensional (2D) gait analysis was used to evaluate hip excursion throughout the gait cycle before and after three months of therapy.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: October 7, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: October 3, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 7 Years to 10 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• able to follow simple basic commands,
• identified with gait abnormalities described as level II on Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS).
• diagnosed as spastic diplegia.

Exclusion Criteria:

• severe visual or auditory problems,
• lower limb surgical orthopaedic surgery or
• BOTOX injection in the six months preceding the start of the study,
• and uncontrolled seizures.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Gait Disorders, Neurologic
• Gait, Spastic

Intervention

Other:
• gait training exercises
walking exercises in different directions

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Nahla	Giza

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

References & Publications (1)

Rodda J, Graham HK. Classification of gait patterns in spastic hemiplegia and spastic diplegia: a basis for a management algorithm. Eur J Neurol. 2001 Nov;8 Suppl 5:98-108. Review. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	hip excursion	hip excursion during gait cycle	3 months