NCT02003755

The Effects of Continuous Passive Motion on Hypertonia of Soleus in Individuals With Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chang Gung University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders of the development of movement and posture but often changing motor impairment syndromes. The spastic subtypes are the most common manifestations of cerebral palsy who perform movement difficultly due to hypertonia. Decease of spinal cord pathway, hyperactivity of alpha and gamma motoneuron and reduction of presynaptic inhibition may cause tendon reflex increase and hypertonia in individuals with CP. There are many ways to improve the hypertonia. In the past studies, the fast repeated range of motion could reduce muscle's activation effectively. The polyarticular movement training might increase joint range of motion and reduce the muscle activation. But the polyarticular movement training is difficulty for some individuals with CP. The single joint movement training may achieve the same effect as the polyarticular movement training. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of continuation passive range of motion (CPM) training whether could get the improvement of soleus hypertonia in individuals with CP.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy (CP)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Ankle continuous passive motion machine.	A rehabilitation program of machine driven passive stretch.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2013-12-06
• Last updated: 2013-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan