NCT04209257

FES to Improve Crouch Gait in CP

Functional Electrical Stimulation to Improve Crouch Gait in Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shriners Hospitals for Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall goal of the proposed work is to develop and to assess the feasibility of using functional electrical stimulation (FES) system to improve crouch gait in individuals with cerebral palsy that may prevent the typical downward spiral of walking function decline in individuals with CP that occurs from adolescence into adulthood.

Detailed description

Aim 1: To assess the feasibility of using a multiple channel FES system to produce an immediate neuroprosthetic effect to reduce crouch gait in children and adolescents with spastic diplegic CP. Aim 2: To assess the feasibility of using a multiple channel FES system as a therapeutic training tool to produce lasting neurotherapeutic effects of diminished crouch gait in children and adolescents with CP.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Gait

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Functional Electrical Stimulation.	Functional electrical stimulation - electrical stimulation applied to a muscle during an activity (i.e. ankle dorsiflexors during swing phase of gait). It assists / elicits muscle activation in order to achieve a task.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2019-12-24
• Last updated: 2019-12-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States