Scooter Board Activities in Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

Badr University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diplegia

Treatments: Other: scooter board activities; Other: Physical therapy program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05609422

Omnya 2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children with CP may have muscle weakness, changes in mobility, posture, muscle tone, motor coordination and deficits in postural control. These changes, individually or collectively, affect psychomotor function. As a result, activities that are performed quickly and readily by healthy children may be difficult and time-consuming for children with CP.

Full description

Similar vestibular stimulation can be provided with ascooter-board which requires more active participation on the part of the child. A scooter-board is simply a wooden board mounted on four castors so that it can roll freely and spin in any direction, it should be big enough to support the middle part of the body while the head, upper chest and legs hang off the ends.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 11 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. CP with a diplegia
2. Age 7 to 11 years
3. Grade 1and 2 according to the Modified Ashworth scale (RW and Smith, 1987).
4. They could walk with limitation or holding on according to GMFCS (level I&II &III) (Palisano et al., 1997).
5. They were able to understand and follow verbal instructions

Exclusion criteria

1. Children with any surgical interference in the upper limb.
2. intellectual disability such that simple tasks could not be understood or executed.
3. Children with any visual or auditory problems.
4. Children with any surgical interference in the lower limb.
5. Children with any structural deformities in joints and bones of lower limbs.
6. Children who suffer from other diseases or associated disorders that interfered with physical activity.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Received the designed physical therapy program.

Treatment:

Other: Physical therapy program

study group

Experimental group

Description:

Received a designed physical therapy program in addition to scooter bord activities.

Treatment:

Other: Physical therapy program

Other: scooter board activities