Selective Motor Control and Upper Extremity Functions in Children With Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Other: Quality of Upper Extremity Skill Test; Other: Hand Held Dynamometer; Other: Test of Arm Selective Control

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04695639

Selective Motor Control

Details and patient eligibility

About

Identification of musculoskeletal and neuromuscular factors that affect the integrity and functional performance in children with cerebral palsy is very essential as it enables multidisciplinary rehabilitation team to design the proper intervention to improve functional performance and independence for those children.

Full description

Limited literature is available regarding the relation between selective voluntary motor control and motor functions in children with cerebral palsy. Up to our knowledge this is the first study intending to investigate the influence of selective voluntary motor control on upper extremity function in children with spastic cerebral palsy. Therefore, the current study will be conducted to investigate the correlation between selective voluntary motor control and upper extremity functions in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy.

It is hypothesized that:-

1. There is no relation between SVMC and upper limb function in children with spastic hemiparetic CP.
2. There is no relation between upper extremity SVMC and hand grip strength in children with spastic hemiparetic CP.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 8 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ranges from 4 to 8 years.
• Both genders.
• Diagnosis of spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy.
• Level I-IV on Manual Ability Classification System.
• Spasticity grade 1 to 2 on Modified Ashworth Scale.
• Level I-III on Gross Motor Classification System .

Exclusion criteria

• Significant mental or psychological problems.
• Significant visual/auditory problem.
• Botox injection and/or surgery of the upper limb in the past 12 months.
• Fixed deformities in the affected upper extremity.

Trial design

46 participants in 1 patient group

cohort group

Description:

A convenient sample of children with spastic hemiparetic CP of both genders will participate in this study. To avoid type II error, sample size calculation was performed prior to the study, based on data of pilot study, using G\*POWER statistical software (version 3.1.9.2; Franz Faul, Universitat Kiel, Germany) \[Exact tests- correlational study, α=0.05, β=0.2, and effect size = 0.4\] and revealed that the appropriate sample size for this study is N=46.

Treatment:

Other: Quality of Upper Extremity Skill Test

Other: Hand Held Dynamometer

Other: Test of Arm Selective Control