Effect of Core Stability Excercises Program on Reaching in Children With Cerebral Palsy

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cerebral Palsy
• Interventions: Procedure: Core stability exercises program; Procedure: Traditional physical therapy program

• Registration Number: NCT05316090
• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University

Brief Summary

Purpose of the study:

To evaluate effect of core stability exercises program on upper limb reaching in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy.

Detailed Description

Thirty spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsied children of both sexes will be selected from General hospitals and private centers in El-Minia government with the following criteria:

1. The age of the selected children ranged from 3 To 6 years old.

2. Degree of spasticity is ranging from 1 to 1+, according to modified Ashworth scale

3. Children in study group will be treated using core stability exercises program in addition to traditional program and children in the control group will be treated using traditional physical therapy program.

4. Trunk control measurement scale and pediatric reach test will be used to evaluate each child individually before and after 6 successive weeks of treatment, three times per week.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-02-08
• Primary Completion: 2021-08-01
• Study Completion: 2021-08-08
• Status Verified: 2022-03
• Study First Submitted: 2022-03-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-03-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-03-30
• Study First Posted: 2022-04-07
• Last Update Posted: 2022-04-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

1. The age of the selected children ranged from 3 To 6 years old.
2. Degree of spasticity is ranging from 1 to 1+, according to modified Ashworth scale(Bohannon and Smith, 1987).
3. Children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy

Exclusion Criteria

1. Fructures and fixed deformities

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
study group	Core stability exercises program	Children in study group treated using core stability exercises program in addition to traditional program
control group	Traditional physical therapy program	Children in the control group treated using traditional physical therapy program.
study group	Traditional physical therapy program	Children in study group treated using core stability exercises program in addition to traditional program

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pediatric reach test	assessment after 6 weeks of intervention	Reaching score

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt