Effect of Vestibular Stimulation on Motor Proficiency and Balance Among Children With Down Syndrome

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vestibular System Disorder

Treatments: Other: General strengthening exercises; Other: Vestibular stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06197750

REC/RCR&AHS/22/0745

Details and patient eligibility

About

This was a randomized controlled trial study where there the total participants were 22and these participants were randomly selected and then distributed in to two groups all participants were selected according to the inclusion exclusion criteria of the study and then they were randomly distributed in two groups named as group A and group B both of the contain equal number of participants which are randomly distributed in groups each group contain 11 participants .Group A received the vestibular stimulation by swing in different positions supine, prone and with or without support in each position for 10minnts 3 times a week for 10 weeks along with general strengthening exercises of upper and lower limb and group B will receive general strengthening exercises of whole body for same time period. Data will be then analyzed by using SPSS windows version 25

Full description

This was a randomized controlled trial study where there the total participants were 22and these participants were randomly selected and then distributed in to two groups all participants were selected according to the inclusion exclusion criteria of the study and then they were randomly distributed in two groups named as group A and group B both of the contain equal number of participants which are randomly distributed in groups each group contain 11 participants .Group A received the vestibular stimulation by swing in different positions supine, prone and with or without support in each position for 10minnts 3 times a week for 10 weeks along with general strengthening exercises of upper and lower limb and group B will receive general strengthening exercises of whole body for same time period.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 11 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:• Down syndrome

• Age 6 to 11 years
• Having no other medical history (6)

Exclusion Criteria:

• • Visual impairment

  • Patient with hearing impairment
  • Patient with poor cognition (6, 8)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

Vestibular stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

Group A received the vestibular stimulation by swing in different positions supine, prone and with or without support in each position for 10minnts 3 times a week for 10 weeks along with general strengthening exercises of upper and lower limb and

Treatment:

Other: Vestibular stimulation

general strengthening exercises

Active Comparator group

Description:

group B will receive general strengthening exercises of whole body for same time period.

Treatment:

Other: General strengthening exercises