The Effect of Therapeutic Climbing on Muscle Strength, Tone and Balance in Hemiplegic Children

Pavlos Kitixis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hemiplegia and Hemiparesis

Treatments: Other: Therapeutic Climbing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05983887

489/10-4-2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomised controlled trial is to learn about the effect of therapeutic climbing in hemiplegic children. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does climbing affect muscle strength and tone? What is its connection between normative data drawn from healthy children? How can it affect balance?

Participants (children) will be asked to complete an series of movements used in sports climbing, such as inside-flag, back-flag and horizontal traverse, while hanging on an in-door climbing wall.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children from 4 to 16 years old
• Children with Hemiplegia
• Evaluated as Level 1 on GMFCS

Exclusion criteria

• Botulinum toxin injection in last 6 months
• Surgery in the last 1 year (myofascial lengthening etc.)
• Children with poor cognitive skills (not following instructions etc.)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants in this group continue their conventional intervention protocol without using the climbing instructions.

Climbing Group

Experimental group

Description:

The participants in this group continue their conventional intervention protocol plus an in-door climbing intervention protocol.

Treatment:

Other: Therapeutic Climbing