Influence of Short-term Vojta Therapy on the Gait in Healthy Adult Subjects. (V&G)

NUMEN Foundation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Gait, Frontal

Treatments: Other: placebo; Other: Vojta Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04689841

Numen2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The patterns of reflex locomotion described by Vojta contain all the basic patterns necessary for gait, which can be observed as partial patterns during normal postural ontogenesis in the first year of life. These patterns are triggered throughout life regardless of age, so they can be activated both in healthy subjects and in the presence of neurological pathology in adult patients.

Full description

In reflex locomotion, there is a coordinated and rhythmic activation of the entire skeletal muscles and different circuits of the central nervous system are stimulated. The motor reactions that are triggered regularly and cyclically due to pressure stimuli, from certain starting positions, are completely reproducible and as often as desired, even in the newborn child.

All the movements that appear in the development of the human being in grasping, turning, crawling, standing up and walking, are therefore visibly stimulated. They are, according to Prof. Vojta, present even in children of a developmental stage, in which they do not spontaneously yet possess these capacities.

Through the therapeutic application of reflex locomotion, those muscular functions used unconsciously and necessary for spontaneous daily motor skills are activated in the patient, especially in the spine, but also in the arms and legs, hands and feet and in the face.

Enrollment: 43 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be over 18 years old.

Exclusion criteria

• Present limitations or permanent or temporary injuries to the locomotor system.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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43 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Vojta Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

In Vojta therapy, the therapist selectively presses certain areas of the body, with the patient lying prone, - supine or - lateral. These types of stimuli, in humans of any age, provoke automatically and without their own initiative, that is, without the active voluntary collaboration of the person

Treatment:

Other: Vojta Therapy

Control Group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

In the control group, a placebo intervention is administered, similar to an experimental intervention

Treatment:

Other: placebo