Home Based Exercise Program for Brain Injury Children

ALYN Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Brain Injury; Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Procedure: home exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00338871

alyn1CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine whether simple home-base aerobic exercise program have beneficial effect on walking abilities and balance performance in children with brain damage

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Clinical diagnosis of CP or ABI Must be able to stand with or without aid.

Exclusion criteria

Can not follow simple commands

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

study

Experimental group

Description:

home exercise

Treatment:

Procedure: home exercise

control

No Intervention group

Description:

regular therapy