NCT05227066

Efficacy of Adding Lower Extremity Weights on Balance in Children With Ataxic Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Delta University for Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Ataxic CP is one type of cerebral palsy. children with ataxic cerebral palsy have trouble with balance and coordination. They may walk with their legs farther apart than other kids and have a hard time with activities that use small hand movements, like writing. Some also have trouble with depth perception This means being able to accurately judge how close or far away something is

Conditions

• Ataxic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	adding lower extremity weights	All children in the two groups received physical therapy protocol for 30 minutes in addition to half kg of sandbags weights attached for each leg
OTHER	traditional physical therapy group	traditional physical therapy group

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-05
• Primary completion: 2025-12-15
• Completion: 2025-12-20
• First posted: 2022-02-07
• Last updated: 2025-12-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt