Effectiveness of Education in Relaxation Surgeries

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Other: Rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06009354

CP gevşetme

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will be carried out with volunteer patients who are followed up by the Orthopedics and Traumatology outpatient clinic of Muğla Training and Research Hospital and diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and meet the study criteria. The evaluations will be performed in the Orthopedics and Traumatology outpatient clinic of Muğla Training and Research Hospital. This study was planned to investigate the effectiveness of multicomponent home activities and family child education against conventional postoperative practices in children with CP who underwent lower extremity tendon release surgery. Objective functional status, spasticity levels, pain levels, kinesiophobia levels and gait quality of the patients will be evaluated.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children with walking CP between the ages of 4-18 years who have undergone lower extremity orthopedic surgery and at least 2 months have passed (leaving the acute and subacute period behind)
• Gross Motor Function Classification (GMFCS) level 1 (walks without restrictions), 2 (walks with restrictions) or 3 (walks using hand-held mobility aids)
• Understand simple commands
• Signing the consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Circumstances that would interfere with conducting assessments or communicating
• Lack of cooperation during the study
• Presence of severe mental retardation
• Presence of botulinum toxin application in the last 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The study group will receive multi-component training in addition to the usual practices. In the multi-component training content, self-massage applications performed by the patient's relatives, joint range of motion applications for the extremities, respiratory training, issues to be considered in activities of daily living, training on the use of assistive devices and training on methods of coping with pain kinesiophobia will be given to the patient's relatives through a video.

Treatment:

Other: Rehabilitation

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will receive the usual post-operative applications (elevation, rest, cold application, stretching).

Treatment:

Other: Rehabilitation