Loaded Gait Training on Gross Motor Function in Cerebral Palsy
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Cairo University
- Where
- Egypt1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 52 people enrolled
- Started
- 2 Apr 2024
- Ended
- 30 Aug 2024
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Conventional physical therapy program
- Loaded gait training
- Record updated
- 19 September 2024
Who can take part
- Age
- 5 years to 7 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age: five to seven years old, classified as levels II and III on the GMFCS
- Spasticity grade from 1+ to 2 based on the Modified Ashworth scale
- Able to understand and follow verbal commands and instructions (with a score above 80 on the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale)
Who cannot take part
- Surgical intervention in the lower limbs within the preceding 12 months
- Genetic or metabolic disorders
- Brain tumours
- Musculoskeletal dysfunction that would interfere with our intervention (e.g. tightness of the posterior knee joint capsule that causes passive knee extension lag, or fixed contracture of the knee joint)
- Botulinum toxin injections in lower limb muscles within the last six months
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
A randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the additional effect loaded gait training to conventional physical therapy program on gross motor function and the knee extensors strength in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy. Children were divided randomly into two equal groups. The control group received a conventional physical therapy program, while the intervention group received the same program plus loaded gait training. Gross motor functions and knee extensor strength were measured.
The 2 groups in the trial
- control armTreatment being tested
The control group (n=26) received a conventional physical therapy program.
Treatment: Conventional physical therapy program
- Intervention armExisting treatment, for comparison
The intervention group (n=26) received conventional physical therapy program and loaded gait training.
Treatment: Conventional physical therapy program and Loaded gait training
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Enhancing Gross Motor Function and Knee Extensor Strength During Loaded Gait Training in Children with Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Record updated
- 19 September 2024