NCT05504798

A New Multimodal Treatment Approach for Children With Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

Efficacy of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation and Interrupted Serial Casting in Children With Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Combining the advantages of both Neuromuscular electrical stimulation and lower limb serial casting to a selected physical therapy program in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy to overcome the adverse effects during the period of casting and the long period of rehabilitative interventions, providing a new multimodal treatment approach.

Conditions

• Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Selected physical therapy program	Selected physical therapy program one hour three times weekly for six successive weeks including stretching, strengthening, balance, and gait training.
PROCEDURE	Interrupted serial casting	Interrupted casting for 5 days a week for six successive weeks using a dual cast which consists of a standard short leg cast and a circular cast from below the knee to above the knee.
DEVICE	Neuromuscular electrical stimulation	Neuromuscular electrical stimulation in form of faradic current with frequency of 50 Hz, and intensity of maximum tolerable intensity to produce a visible contraction but as tolerated by the child for ankle dorsiflexors and knee extensors muscles through cast windows over the motor points of these muscles for 30 min 3 times weekly for six successive weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-01
• Primary completion: 2023-04-01
• Completion: 2023-08-01
• First posted: 2022-08-17
• Last updated: 2023-02-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt