Ready, Set, Go! A Physical Fitness Intervention for Children With Mobility Challenges

Northwestern University

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Gross Motor Development Delay; Cerebral Palsy; Arthrogryposis; Motor Skills Disorders; Myelomeningocele

Treatments: Behavioral: adapted Chicago Run running program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04789746

STU00209443

Details and patient eligibility

About

Barriers to keeping and maintaining fitness as a young person with a disability exist across many domains of access to community locations such as fitness centers, so looking outside of these establishments may be necessary to advance fitness. This study is aimed at piloting a program that would address some of these barriers by hosting a modified after school running program with an underserved population in an accessible way. There is a second option to participate outside of school.

Enrollment: 25 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• a medical diagnosis (for example, cerebral palsy) that causes them mobility limitations

Exclusion criteria

• concurrent medical condition that would make exercise unsafe,
• are unable to follow simple commands
• have behaviors that would potentially compromise safety of fellow runners or caregivers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 1 patient group

Running group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants that will join the running program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: adapted Chicago Run running program