Validity of the Kinematic Classification of Gait in Diplegic Children With Cerebral Palsy (CP)

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy; Diplegia, Spastic

Treatments: Other: classification of gait in diplegic children with CP

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01158833

UDGEE_2010_classdipl

Details and patient eligibility

About

In recent years Ferrari et al. proposed a new classification of gait in diplegic children with spastic diplegia that describes four different patterns of gait by analyzing the strategies that each children adopts to need his/her needs to walk. The investigators believe that this classification provides the clinician with clinically meaningful information in terms of coping strategies adopted to maximize the ability to walk.

The aim of this study is to determine the criterion validity of the new classification of the pattern of gait in children with spastic diplegia by correlating pattern of diplegic gait with the score of the Functional performance measure.

Enrollment: 86 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diplegia and CP;

Exclusion criteria

• severe mental retardation attested by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders IV
• pharmaco-resistant epilepsy
• behavioural disorders

Trial design

86 participants in 1 patient group

spastic diplegia due to Cerebral Palsy

Treatment:

Other: classification of gait in diplegic children with CP