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CompletedNCT00462085

Muscle Activity With the Use of Ankle Foot Orthoses in Cerebral Palsy

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
24 (planned)
Sponsor
University Children's Hospital Basel · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
8 Years – 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the change in muscle activity during gait with the use of ankle foot orthoses in children diagnosed with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.

Detailed description

A small group of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy is investigated by 3D instrumented gait analysis. Muscle activity is measured by surface electromyography (sEMG) of selected lower limb muscle groups. Kinematic, Kinetic, and sEMG data are compared between both lower limbs walking with and without an ankle foot orthosis. Data are also compared with those of an healthy control group.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2004-09-01
Completion
2007-04-01
First posted
2007-04-18
Last updated
2007-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00462085. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.