Dual-task Training in Children With Cerebral Palsy

Sema BÜĞÜŞAN ORUÇ

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diplegia; Participation, Patient; Physical Disability; Cerebral Palsy; Activity, Motor; Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Other: dual-task training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04777773

Ordu347

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are studies investigating the dual-task effect in sitting, standing up without sitting and walking in children with spastic CP. Some of these studies investigated motor-motor, some of them motor-cognitive dual-task states, and children with CP were compared to typically developing children. In all these studies, it is clearly seen that children with CP have more dual-task complexities than their typically developing peers. Some of these studies draw attention to dual-task education in children with CP. However, other than a randomized controlled study and a case report in the literature, we did not find any studies investigating the effectiveness of dual-task training in children with CP. When the literature is examined in detail, there is no study that examines the effect of dual-task exercise programs on walking activities and children's participation in daily life in children with CP.

This study has been planned based on this deficiency in the literature. Based on ICF, This study has been planned dual-task training for children with CP.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being diagnosed with cerebral palsy,
• Having spastic type unilateral and bilateral involvement,
• Being between the ages of 7-18,
• Being GMFCSS Level I and Level II,
• Continuing normal education (not being a mainstreaming student),
• Not having any surgical operation involving the musculoskeletal system in the last 6 months,
• Not having Botulinum Toxin application in the last 6 months.

Exclusion criteria

• Failing to accomplish the cognitive task (starting from a number between 0-100 and not counting back 1 each)
• Being a behavioral problem that makes it difficult to participate in the study,
• Inability to walk without support

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

Other group

Description:

classical physical therapy+ classical physical therapy

Treatment:

Other: dual-task training

study group

Other group

Description:

classical physical therapy+ dual-task training

Treatment:

Other: dual-task training