NCT05384990

Sensorimotor Control During Postural Transitions in CP

Neuromotor Control During Postural Transitions in Children and Young Adults With Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Delaware · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a light electrical stimulation to leg muscles and joints can help people with Cerebral Palsy (CP) maintain balance during everyday tasks such as getting up from a chair and walking. Children and young adults with CP can have trouble with daily tasks such as standing up, sitting down on the chair and turning. The difficulty in maintaining balance sometimes lead to falls. This raises risk of disability in CP as children age into teens and adults. Current treatments are not very effective. In this study, children and young adults will be asked to stand up from a stool, walk in a straight line, turn, walk back and sit down on the stool. Participants will receive electrical stimulation at a very low intensity that cannot be felt to help increase their sensory perception. The investigators will evaluate treatment by testing balance, and other functional measures.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Stochastic Resonance Electric Stimulation	Subjects will be asked to perform postural transitions like sit to stand, gait initiation, sit to walk and Timed up and the Go (TUG) functional test. This will entail a subsensory electrical signal with a white noise frequency distribution. Proprioceptive SR electrical stimulation will be delivered by BIOPAC Systems, Inc. stimulators that are current limited to deliver less than 10 milli ampere of current. Electrical stimulation will be delivered to muscles and joints along the legs and hips. The stimulation intensity will be very low, below the sensory threshold of the participant.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-01
• Primary completion: 2025-05-30
• Completion: 2025-12-30
• First posted: 2022-05-23
• Last updated: 2025-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States