NCT01815814

Therapeutic Potential of Myofascial Structural Integration in Children With Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Year – 3 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that children with spastic cerebral palsy will show greater improvements in gross motor function, associated developmental skills and growth after the 3 months of myofascial structural integration treatment, a form of deep massage, than they showed after a 3- or 6-month pre-treatment waiting period. The investigators further hypothesize that children with spastic CP will maintain their gains in gross motor function for ≥ 3 months after completion of MSI treatment.

Detailed description

* The investigators will talk to you by telephone to determine if your child is eligible for the study. * The study lasts for a total of 12 months with the massage treatment period lasting 12 weeks. * The study entails a total of 10 sessions of Myofascial Structural Integration therapy over the 12-week period. Each session will last one hour. * The child will have an evaluation of motor functions and development on enrollment and at three-month intervals for a total of 5 evaluations.

Conditions

• Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Rolfing / Myofascial Structural Integration	Rolfing is similar to deep massage. It is also known as "myofascial structural integration."

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-11-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2014-11-01
• First posted: 2013-03-21
• Last updated: 2015-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States