Observational Study of the Conjugated Rehabilitation on Children With Cerebral Palsy

Korean Medicine Hospital of Pusan National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Other: Korean medical treatment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02223741

CP_conjugated rehabilitation

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to assess effectiveness, safety and cost-utility of conventional rehabilitation and traditional Korean medicine conjugated rehabilitation on children with cerebral palsy.

Full description

1. Survey

   1. An interview survey on baseline

      • Basic characteristics
      • Cause of cerebral palsy
      • Accompanied disorders
      • Health problems
      • Operation history
      • Drug-taking
      • Rehabilitation treatment
      • Korean medicine treatment
      • Health functional food
      • Medical care cost

   2. An interview survey on 26th and 52nd weeks

      • Accompanied disorders
      • Health problems

   3. A weekly tracking survey

      • Health problems
      • Therapeutic change
      • Medical care cost
      • Quality of life

2. Assessment for function development on baseline, 26th and 52nd weeks

   • Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS)
   • Gross Motor Function Measure-66 (GMFM-66)
   • Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI)

Enrollment: 207 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 78 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children with cerebral palsy
• Age from 6 to 78 months
• whose guardian consent to the present study

Exclusion criteria

• who had an orthopedic operation due to cerebral palsy
• who has congenital muscular disease, hereditary disease, or progressive central nervous system diseases
• who suffers from severe diseases (ie, cancer, severe heart disease, severe infectious disease)

Trial design

207 participants in 2 patient groups

Korean medicine conjugate rehabilitation

Description:

those with more than 30 days of herbal drugs or more than 12 times of acupuncture (Korean medical treatment) within six months in addition to conventional rehabilitation

Treatment:

Other: Korean medical treatment

Conventional rehabilitation

Description:

those with one of the treatments; physical, occupational, speech-language or cognitive-behavioral therapies