Role of Strength Training in Adolescents and Adults with Cerebral Palsy
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Cerebral Palsy (Spastic Diplegia), ICD-10 G80.1
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2014/11/005186
- Lead Sponsor
- DST
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 42
Inclusion Criteria
1.Participants with intellectual ability to comprehend instructions and follow verbal instructions
2. Orthopedically aligned adolescents and young adults diagnosed as CP in GMFCS categories II and III
Exclusion Criteria
1.Participants having unstable seizures
2.Participants unable to comprehend instructions
3.If participants received invasive treatment for spasticity or any surgical procedure up to 3 months to 6 months (for surgery) prior to the study
4. Other orthopaedic, systemic or cardio-respiratory illness that may be a contra indication to exercise
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Isometric Muscle Strength of Gait Muscles <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Functional Strength <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Oxygen Cost of Ambulation <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 3 months (12 weeks)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of gait <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Changes in spatio-temporal parameters of gait <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>gait velocityTimepoint: 3 months (12 weeks)