Effect of Muscle Strength on Hamstring Flexibility in Children With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Muscle Strength; Lower Extremity; Hamstring Contractures; Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03589573

GO 16/740-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigator researched that the effect of trunk and lower extremity muscle strength on hamstring flexibility in children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Full description

Thirty children were asessed by physical therapist. Nineteen children was Level 1 and eleven children was Level 2 according to Brooke Lower Extremity Functional Classification Scale.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 5 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Getting a Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy diagnosis,
• Being in ambulatuar phases and independently climbing four stairs
• To be cooperate to physioterapist's directions

Exclusion criteria

• Having severe contracture in the lower extremity
• Having undergone surgery in the past 6 months