Effect of Posture and Passive Cycling on Cardiac Autonomic Control System in Children With Severe Cerebral Palsy

Ziv Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Device: APT cycling system; Device: Innowalk cycling system

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02599025

ziv-0089015

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will examine the immediate contribution of position and movement on the functioning of the autonomic cardiac control system.

Full description

Standing position is a routine therapeutic tool for improving bone density in children with cerebral palsy. The autonomous immediate response for these children is defective. In recent years it has been shown that there is an association between bone density and autonomic function .

In this paper the investigators will examine how the addition of movement to standing subjects contribute to changes in heart rate and blood pressure.

The hypothesis is that the integration of movement while standing presents a change in the autonomic response and thus may improve bone density.

Enrollment: 24 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Motor ability of GMFCS IV-V

Exclusion criteria

• Children with hip subluxation
• On Baclofen inhaler treatment
• Heart disease
• surgical procedures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 4 patient groups

Supine position

No Intervention group

Description:

Children tested while lying down

Standing position

No Intervention group

Description:

Children tested while standing

Cycling supine postion

Experimental group

Description:

Children lying down with APT cycling system

Treatment:

Device: APT cycling system

Cycling standing postion

Experimental group

Description:

Children standing with Innowalk cycling system

Treatment:

Device: Innowalk cycling system