NCT05233748

Neuromotor Control During Walking in Children With Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Delaware · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

One out of every three children with cerebral palsy (CP) falls daily, with more than half of the falls occurring while walking. To avoid falling, the nervous system must continuously monitor how the body moves and, when an imbalance is detected, activate muscles for an appropriate correction. In this project, we will use small electrical stimulation of muscles and tendons that enhances the sense of body positioning, to allow children with CP to generate more accurate balance corrections.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Stochastic Resonance (SR)	The system consists of six linear isolated stimulators (STMISOLA, Biopac Systems, Inc., Goleta, USA). The SR signal (Gaussian White Noise, zero mean) will be generated through a 16 bit PCI 6733 National Instruments multifunction data acquisition card by a custom LabView program. The stimulation sites include the ankle, lateral soleus, peroneus longus, and tibialis anterior muscles and the hip.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-30
• Primary completion: 2022-09-28
• Completion: 2022-09-28
• First posted: 2022-02-10
• Last updated: 2022-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States