NCT02010736

Loading Gait in Spatic Cerebral Palsy

Immediate Effects of a Single Treadmill Gait Training Session With Additional Loading on Kinematic Gait Parameters in Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to observe the behavior of kinematic variables in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy (SHCP), immediately after treadmill gait training with ankle loading. The children underwent a single treadmill training session with ankle loading. The kinematic parameters were assessed in three phases: before training (PRE); immediately after training (POST); and 5 minutes after the end of training (FOLLOW UP). The investigators hypothesized that the treadmill gait training with additional lower limb loading would be a disturbance capable of modifying the locomotor strategy of children with SHCP, by the increase in kinematic parameters in the swing phase of gait.

Conditions

• Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Single treadmill gait training with additional loading

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2012-11-01
• First posted: 2013-12-13
• Last updated: 2013-12-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil