Virtual Reality in Children With Hemiparesis

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Disability

Treatments: Other: designed occupational therapy program; Other: Wii virtual reality games

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04679779

virtual reality

Details and patient eligibility

About

children with cerebral palsy have impaired selective motor control and upper limb functions that affect their performance

Full description

Twenty volunteer children diagnosed with hemiparetic cerebral palsy will be recruited from national institute of neuromotor system. they will be randomly assigned to intervention and control group.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 11 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • Age between 7 and 11 years
• spasticity grade of 1+ or 2 on MAS
• level I and II on GMFCS
• level II and III on MACS
• Being able to cooperate and being motivated

Exclusion criteria

• visual or auditory problems Severe spasticity (an Ashworth spasticity score of 4 in any upper or lower extremities) Severe mental retardation surgeries for spasticity within the past 12 months, toxin injection within the past six months.
• Structural or fixed soft tissue deformities in the affected upper extremity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

Experimental group

Description:

receive occupational therapy program

Treatment:

Other: designed occupational therapy program

study group

Experimental group

Description:

receive wii virtual reality

Treatment:

Other: Wii virtual reality games