The Best Intervention to Improve Gait Pattern in Children with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy
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- 7 February 2025
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Cerebral palsy is the most common disability in childhood, is a devastating non-progressive ailment of the infants' brain with lifelong sequelae (e.g., spastic paresis, chronic pain, inability to walk, intellectual disability, behavioral disorders) for which there is no cure at present. Cerebral palsy has different causes such as perinatal asphyxia, stroke and central nervous system CNS infection.Read full original descriptionShow less
Effect of Motor Planning Exercises Versus Neurodevelopmental Technique on Gait Pattern in Children with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy is the most common disability in childhood, is a devastating non-progressive ailment of the infants' brain with lifelong sequelae (e.g., spastic paresis, chronic pain, inability to walk, intellectual disability, behavioral disorders) for which there is no cure at present. Cerebral palsy has different causes such as perinatal asphyxia, stroke and central nervous system CNS infection.
Cerebral palsy may have several associated comorbidities, including epilepsy, musculoskeletal problems, intellectual disability, feeding difficulties, visual abnormalities, hearing abnormalities, and communication difficulties. There are different classifications of CP primarily based on motor type and topography one of them is diplegic CP, lower limbs are more seriously affected than the upper limb at times, patients have toe strolling because of a dorsiflexion problem of the foot and expansion in the tone of the lower leg. In serious cases, there is a flexion of the hips, knees and elbows, and when the child is held upward, the firmness of the lower furthest points is generally articulated and tightness of the adductor muscles of the lower legs cause scissoring of lower limits.
Neurodevelopmental therapy NDT is a popular approach to rehabilitation for people with cerebral palsy. It focuses on improving movement by analyzing how the body moves, understanding the relationship between posture and movement, and using sensory information to guide motor control. NDT therapists often use techniques like handling to facilitate movement and train people to use more typical motor patterns. While NDT has been widely used, there's ongoing debate about its effectiveness compared to other approaches, and its specific practices can vary across different countries and settings.
Motor planning is defined as either an explicit decision-making or implicit process that takes into consideration both the goal and the constraints of the desired movement . This process is thought to rely on a feedforward internal model based on action simulation . Before a motor command is sent, the system briefly perceives the environmental cues to anticipate the realization of an adapted movement . Through the representation of the sensorimotor associations learned from past experiences, a prediction of the sensory consequences of the action is made . This step appears before action initiation and is believed to be based on the copy of the motor command for a subset of tasks .
Motor planning is a large concept encompassing terms such as anticipatory control, motor preparation, and motor programming, with the terminology changing over time and varying by field of study.
Motor Planning Organization of Motor Actions Motor planning is the ability to automatically organize a motor act so that it can be performed or implemented. This involves the internal process of organizing one's motor actions, without consciously planning out the action is believed to be largely dependent on tactile proprioceptive sensory inputs, although visual perceptual and visual spatial skills are also often associated with this area of function. Most often, problems in motor planning are reflected in difficulties in planning body movements.
Inclusion: Parents/legals representatives consenting to their child's participation; Diagnosis of cerebral palsy; Ages 3-14 years - Cooperative behavior; Their grade of spasticity will be from 1 to 2 according to Modified Ashworth scale; They will be on Level I and II according to Gross Motor Functional Classification System; The child will be able to follow verbal commands and instructions.
Exclusion: Previous neurological or orthopedic surgery in the lower extremities; Irregular attendance at assessments or therapy sessions; Botox injection in the lower extremities in the past 6 months; Fixed deformity in the joints of lower limb; Severe hearing and visual problems; Different diagnosis than cerebral palsy; Inability to "walk freely or with a mobility aid (GMFCS Level IV or V)" .