Effect of Core Stability Excercises Program on Reaching in Children With Cerebral Palsy

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Procedure: Traditional physical therapy program; Procedure: Core stability exercises program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05316090

P.T.REC/012/003125

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose of the study:

To evaluate effect of core stability exercises program on upper limb reaching in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy.

Full description

Thirty spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsied children of both sexes will be selected from General hospitals and private centers in El-Minia government with the following criteria:

1. The age of the selected children ranged from 3 To 6 years old.
2. Degree of spasticity is ranging from 1 to 1+, according to modified Ashworth scale
3. Children in study group will be treated using core stability exercises program in addition to traditional program and children in the control group will be treated using traditional physical therapy program.
4. Trunk control measurement scale and pediatric reach test will be used to evaluate each child individually before and after 6 successive weeks of treatment, three times per week.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 6 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. The age of the selected children ranged from 3 To 6 years old.
2. Degree of spasticity is ranging from 1 to 1+, according to modified Ashworth scale(Bohannon and Smith, 1987).
3. Children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy

Exclusion criteria

1. Fructures and fixed deformities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

study group

Experimental group

Description:

Children in study group treated using core stability exercises program in addition to traditional program

Treatment:

Procedure: Core stability exercises program

Procedure: Traditional physical therapy program

control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Children in the control group treated using traditional physical therapy program.

Treatment:

Procedure: Traditional physical therapy program