Does Increasing Auditory Cueing Affect Gait Parameters in Children With Cerebral Palsy During a Functional Task?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 19
- 主要终点
- Step Length as Measured by the Gaitrite Walk-way System.
研究概览
简要总结
To determine the clinical efficacy of auditory cueing using a cross over design to investigate whether increasing auditory cueing frequency by 20% above self paced cadence affects gait parameters in children with Cerebral Palsy when performing a functional task.
详细描述
Introduction
Cerebral Palsy is a non progressive disorder occurring in early brain development, resulting in inefficient ambulatory pattern. The use of sensory cues to facilitate loco-motor activity has been suggested as providing the necessary trigger to synchronise movement with greater beneficial outcomes observed at higher frequency intensities within the adult population. Thus auditory cueing could have the potential to alter gait parameters during a functional task.
Aim: To explore if increasing auditory cueing frequency (AC20) affects gait during a functional task compared to auditory cueing at self-paced cadence (ACSC).
Method: Nineteen children with CP levels 1 and 2 on the Gross Motor Function Classification Scale participated using paired analysis. Outcomes were compared to the mean values for temporal spatial gait data within the conditions using a cross over design. TS data was obtained by using the GAITRite® walkway system whilst walking holding a cup.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Investigator)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 5 Years 至 11 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Children with Cerebral Palsy aged 5 to 11 years old who were scored as levels 1 to 2 on the Gross Motor Function Classification Scale.
- •Cognitive status average or above on the Weschler Intelligence Scale for children.
- •Able to hear without the use of a hearing aid.
排除标准
- •Hearing impairment that results in the use of a hearing aid.
- •Walking with assistance of a mobility aid.
- •Cardiovascular problems or other associated health problems which limits the child waking multiple times over the GAITRite®.
结局指标
主要结局
Step Length as Measured by the Gaitrite Walk-way System.
时间窗: Data was collected at a single time point for each condition. Conditions occurred within a two week time period.
The Gaitrite is a portable gait analysis walk-way system that enables the temprospatial measures of gait to be recorded. The temprospatial measure of length was recorded in centimetres.
次要结局
- Velocity as Measured by the Gaitrite Walk-way System.(Data was collected at a single time point for each condition. Conditions occurred within a two week time period.)
- Time Spent in Double Support as Measured by the Gaitrite Walk-way System.(Data was collected at a single time point for each condition. Conditions occurred within a two week time period.)
- Time Spent in Single Support as Measured by the Gaitrite Walk-way System.(Data was collected at a single time point for each condition. Conditions occurred within a two week time period.)
- Step Time as Measured by the Gaitrite Walk-way System.(Data was collected at a single time point for each condition. Conditions occurred within a two week time period.)
- Cadence as Measured by the Gaitrite Walk-way System.(Data was collected at a single time point for each condition. Conditions occurred within a two week time period.)