NCT03547674

Tuned Versus Untuned Ankle-foot Orthoses in Children and Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy

Tuned Versus Untuned Ankle-foot Orthoses in Children and Adolescents With Cerebral palsy_AFO-Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cerebral palsy (CP) in children and adolescents is frequently accompanied by gait abnormalities. Ankle-foot orthoses (AFO) have been suggested to improve the gait pattern. Compared to conventional AFO, modular AFO offer the opportunity to tune its response to the patient's gait characteristics and/or functional maturity. However, the evidence level is still small and AFO tuning is not yet established in clinical routine. The study will investigate individual tuning of custom-built ankle-foot-orthoses (AFO) using gait analyses

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	barefoot	Gait analysis under 4 conditions (barefoot, shoes only, untuned AFO with shoes, tuned AFO with shoes) will be performed in a random order.
OTHER	shoes only	Gait analysis under 4 conditions (barefoot, shoes only, untuned AFO with shoes, tuned AFO with shoes) will be performed in a random order.
OTHER	untuned AFO with shoes	Gait analysis under 4 conditions (barefoot, shoes only, untuned AFO with shoes, tuned AFO with shoes) will be performed in a random order. AFO are walking aids to improve gait pathologies. They are custom-built using plaster casts. AFO for equinus and/or drop foot pathologies are specifically indicated to control excessive ankle plantar flexion. Push-up elements that return the energy from the stance-phase to support lifting the foot during the swing-phase (similar to a spring) are used.
OTHER	tuned AFO with shoes	Gait analysis under 4 conditions (barefoot, shoes only, untuned AFO with shoes, tuned AFO with shoes) will be performed in a random order. Modular AFO tuning means that patients try different pushup elements with varying stiffness and design before the final design is determined.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-08-31
• Completion: 2019-08-31
• First posted: 2018-06-06
• Last updated: 2024-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland