Vestibular Stimulation and Neurodevelopmental Technique on Hypotonic Cerebral Palsy While Controlling the Gender

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypotonia; Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Other: Neck Control facilitation exercises; Other: Vestibular stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04894799

REC/00983 Sadaf Zahra

Details and patient eligibility

About

there is no such article found who specifies the effects of sensory integration therapies like vestibular stimulation technique or developmental milestone while controlling the gender of children with cerebral palsy. So, there is a need to do more research work on this in future to find out best treatment approach for children with cerebral palsy of their respective gender. That is why this study will focus on the results of vestibular stimulation and neurodevelopmental technique while controlling the Gender distribution of both intervention groups to find out the effects of these interventions that wither, they have some influence on the participants or not.

Full description

Bobath concept of neurodevelopment in children with cerebral palsy, is a problem-solving approach to the assessment and treatment of individuals with disturbances of tone, movement, and function due to a lesion of CNS, the goal of treatment is to optimize function by improving postural control and selective movement through facilitation. But also, no study found which specifically focuses the improvements on boys and girl's ratio or their gender-based improvements of tone or developmental milestones.

Different swings such as Infant Swing, frog swing, platform swing will be included as mode of Vestibular stimulation treatment. On the other side, Stimulation of vestibular system improved child's postural control and motor function in many studies.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 months to 4 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hypotonic CP
• GMFM-88 ranges: With true score of zero (0) = does not initiates i.e., head control absent at age of 6 months
• Tone: 6 months infants total scoring ≤ 54 and 8 month or more total scoring ≤ 68 on Infant Neurological international Battery Scoring Sheet will be included.

Exclusion criteria

• Children with other Abnormalities and pathologies like Down syndrome, Joubert Syndrome

  • Children Undergone any kind of surgery like reconstruction surgeries for congenital defects of eyes, head, neck or all four limbs of the body
  • Children with other type of Cerebral Palsy (CP) like Spastic (Hypertonic), Choreoathetoid, Dystonic, Ataxia, Athetoid and mixed CP
  • Children with any other neurological deficits, Mentally Challenged.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Vestibular stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

all participants will be given Infant Swing activity for one hour, trice a day for first 4 weeks. After that, in 5th and 6th weeks, all participants will be given Infant Swing for 30 minutes and frog swing for 30 minutes for two weeks. Next 7th and 8th weeks, Infant Swing (30 minutes) and prone on frog swing feet touching the floor (30 minutes), trice a day will be applied. In 9th week, Infant swing and normal playground swing for 30,30 minutes will be given to all participants, trice a day. In Last week of intervention i.e., 10th week, all participants will be given Infant Swing for 30 minutes and standing on platform swing (30 minutes) trice a day.

Treatment:

Other: Vestibular stimulation

Neck Control facilitation exercises

Active Comparator group

Description:

all participants will be given Neck Control facilitation exercises using Bobath Approach of low tone facilitation method, for one hour, trice a day for first 4 weeks. After that, in 5th and 6th weeks, all participants will be given Neck Control facilitation exercises for 30 minutes and sitting facilitation Exercises with trunk weight shifting for 30 minutes, trice a day. Next 7th and 8th weeks, Neck Control facilitation exercises (30 minutes) and sitting facilitation exercises with trunk weight shifting and kneeling weight bearing (30 minutes), trice a day will be applied. In 9th and 10th weeks, Neck Control facilitation exercises, sitting and kneeling weight bearing and standing with trunk elongation will be given to all participants for one hour, trice a day.

Treatment:

Other: Neck Control facilitation exercises