Impact of upper limbs exercises protocol on gait of children with Cerebral Palsy

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• Conditions: Cerebral Palsy, spastic diplegia; G80.1

• Registration Number: RBR-5y9yyc
• Lead Sponsor: Associação de Assistência à Criança Deficiente

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-09-17
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Data analysis completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

Children with clinical follow-up at AACD; diagnosed with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy; age between 3 and 13 years old; using type of gait aid; classified level III of GMFCS (Gross Motor Function Classification System); able to attend the institution twice times a week; with 5 subjects for each group (total of 15 subjects).

Exclusion Criteria

Patients with less than 6 months of orthopedic surgical procedure and less than 3 months of neuromuscular blocking.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Intervention
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
After 12 weeks of protocol beneficial effects to the gait performance are expected compared to the other groups. <br>Evaluate by Six-Minute Walk Test, Ten-meter Walk Test and Timed Up and Go test applied before and after the 12 weeks of protocol. The level of significance considered was 5% virified by the t test paired.;No statistically significant difference was found between the results after 12 weeks of protocol, of Six-Minute Walk Test, Ten-meter Walk Test and Timed Up and Go test in the in the interventional group.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
After 12 weeks of protocol beneficial effects are expected for uppper limb weight bearing capacity, evalueted in a force plate, and an improvement of trunk control in the trunk impairment scale.The level of significance considered was 5%. <br><br>;Statistically significant difference was found in the trunk control capacity for intervencional group, correlated with static balance capacity, and for the control group, correlated with dynamic balance capacity.