Loading Gait in Spatic Cerebral Palsy (SCP)

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Other: Single treadmill gait training with additional loading

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02010736

CEP-UFRN 76519/2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to observe the behavior of kinematic variables in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy (SHCP), immediately after treadmill gait training with ankle loading.

The children underwent a single treadmill training session with ankle loading. The kinematic parameters were assessed in three phases: before training (PRE); immediately after training (POST); and 5 minutes after the end of training (FOLLOW UP).

The investigators hypothesized that the treadmill gait training with additional lower limb loading would be a disturbance capable of modifying the locomotor strategy of children with SHCP, by the increase in kinematic parameters in the swing phase of gait.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Spastic Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy;
• Being able to walk without an assistive device (levels I or II of the Gross Motor Function Classification System - GMFCS);
• Not having undergone muscle lengthening surgery within the previous year;
• Not having applied botulin toxin to the lower limbs or serial casting in the previous 6 months.

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to understand simple commands to perform the training and evaluation;
• Inability to walk on the treadmill with or without load on the lower limbs;
• Presence of any physical pain or discomfort during the course of training.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Spastic Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy

Experimental group

Description:

Single treadmill gait training with additional loading

Treatment:

Other: Single treadmill gait training with additional loading