Feedback in Augmented Reality to Control of Gait Parameters in Children With Cerebral Palsy (BestOf_ARRoW)

Fondation Ellen Poidatz

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gait Disorders, Neurologic; Cerebral Palsy; Feedback, Psychological

Treatments: Device: Feedback modalities given through an augmented reality headset

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04460833

BestOf_ARRoW Feedback

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorder of CP are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cognition, communication, and behaviour; by epilepsy, and by secondary musculoskeletal problems.

Motor activities, especially walking, can be affected by many factors including sensory deficits, biomechanical and postural limitations, muscle weakness and spasticity.To provide feedback, during gait rehabilitation is a complementary approach to improve motor learning during the rehabilitation protocol. However, the feedback modalities are multiple and no study has compared these modalities. This study aims to test which feedback modalities could control the gait parameters (speed, cadence, step length) of the child with CP in real-time, through an augmented reality environment.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children with Cerebral palsy (medical file)
• Age 12-18
• Global Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) I-III
• Functional Mobility Scale (FMS) minimum 2 for "50 meters"
• Ability to cooperate, to understand and to follow instructions
• Patient affiliated to the French social security system
• Patient volunteers whose the parents given their authorization to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Medical decision for any reason
• Child or parent decision for any reason
• Inability to cooperate, to understand and to follow instructions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Test group

Experimental group

Description:

All children will have the 6 feedback modalities + the control given randomly

Treatment:

Device: Feedback modalities given through an augmented reality headset