NCT01158833

Validity of the Kinematic Classification of Gait in Diplegic Children With Cerebral Palsy (CP)

Validity of the Kinematic Classification of Gait in Diplegic Children With Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 86 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In recent years Ferrari et al. proposed a new classification of gait in diplegic children with spastic diplegia that describes four different patterns of gait by analyzing the strategies that each children adopts to need his/her needs to walk. The investigators believe that this classification provides the clinician with clinically meaningful information in terms of coping strategies adopted to maximize the ability to walk. The aim of this study is to determine the criterion validity of the new classification of the pattern of gait in children with spastic diplegia by correlating pattern of diplegic gait with the score of the Functional performance measure.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Diplegia, Spastic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	classification of gait in diplegic children with CP	To determine the criterion validity of the classification of the pattern of diplegic gait proposed by Ferrari et al. we correlated gait patterns with the score of the FMS.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-09-01
• Completion: 2010-11-01
• First posted: 2010-07-08
• Last updated: 2014-06-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy