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Feasibility Of Oral Sensorimotor Stimulation On Oropharyngeal Dysphagia In Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Physical Therapy
Interventions
Other: conventional physical therapy training
Other: oral motor training.
Registration Number
NCT04524559
Lead Sponsor
Cairo University
Brief Summary

Children with CP encounter swallow and feeding impairments, especially in infancy and childhood with long meal times with late development of oral motor skills resulting in poor growth.

Detailed Description

this study will be conducted to explore the feasibility of oral sensorimotor stimulation combined with sequenced trunk co-activation on oropharyngeal dysphagia in children with spastic quadriplegic CP.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
64
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
conventional physical therapy trainingconventional physical therapy trainingreceived 90 minutes conventional physical therapy training focused on regaining typical movement, prohibiting abnormal muscle tone, promoting postural reactions and enhancing postural mechanisms.
oral stimulationoral motor training.received 30 minutes of oral motor training five days week. The training included oral stimulation (facilitation) conducted before the child's actual meal time. The designed protocol comprised modified perioral and intraoral maneuvers based on Fucile's protocol
oral stimulationconventional physical therapy trainingreceived 30 minutes of oral motor training five days week. The training included oral stimulation (facilitation) conducted before the child's actual meal time. The designed protocol comprised modified perioral and intraoral maneuvers based on Fucile's protocol
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Oral motor skillsperiod of the treatment was 4 successive months

The Oral Motor Assessment Scale is a reliable and accurate scale frequently used to assess oral-motor skills in young patients with neurological disorders. It is a useful tool that can be used in assessment and interventional studies. The full assessment takes approximately 20 minutes to be completed for each child giving score as passive (0), sub-functional (1), semi-functional (2) and functional (3) with higher scores represent better oral-motor skills

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
- Physical growthperiod of the treatment was 4 successive months

The body mass was measured via weight scale to detect the physical growth changes overtime.

- Gross motor functionperiod of the treatment was 4 successive months

The motor function was conducted via the gross motor function measure (GMFM). The GMFM-88 is a valid and reliable observational criterion-referenced tool graded from 0-100 was developed to assess motor function in children with CP or Down syndrome. It measures gross motor function in five domains with 88 items with higher scores represent better motor function

- Segmental trunk controlperiod of the treatment was 4 successive months

The Segmental Assessment of Trunk Control (SATCo) was applied to assess upright trunk postural control in sitting position. It is an ordinal scale with a grade 1 to 7 is assigned for each segment with the score 7 indicates that the infant can't retain independent sitting (no hand support). A score of 8 is given as full trunk control is gained. Each infant would therefore have three scores to represent the static, active and reactive trunk control (higher scores represent better trunk control)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

faculty of physical therapy, Cairo university

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Giza, Egypt

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