Perturbation-Based Balance Training on Trunk Proprioception and Balance in Cerebral Palsy:

Lama Saad El-Din Mahmoud

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cerebral Palsy

Treatments

Other: Perturbation-Based Balance Training

Other: the selected physical therapy exercise program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06721650

P.T.REC/012/005471

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the effect of Perturbation-Based Balance Training on trunk proprioception and balance in hemiparetic cerebral palsy

Full description

Thirty-eight patients with hemiplegic cerebral palsy will participate in this study.

The patients will randomly be divided into two equal groups; the control group which received the selected physical therapy exercise program and the study group received the same exercise training program in addition to Perturbation-Based Balance Training, three times per week for three months. The evaluation methods are BIODEX, The Pediatric Balance Scale, baseline digital inclinometer.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

8 to 10 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

- Thirty-eight children hemiplegic cerebral palsy
Age will range as (8:10) years old
Spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy
Normal body mass index ranged from 1SD to -2SDaccording to BMI-for age Z score charts include an age and sex- specific BMI for children (WHO, 2007).
Gross motor function classification system: level I&II

Exclusion criteria

• Difficulty to communicate or to understand program instructions
- any other neurological deficits or orthopaedic abnormalities,
- secondary musculoskeletal complication
- vestibular problems
- any mental impairment