NCT05608954

Effects of Physical Therapy on the Multisystems of Children With Cerebral Palsy: a Longitudinal Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 33 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Months – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cerebral Palsy (CP) refers to childhood movement and posture disorders, whose severity, patterns of motor involvement and associated impairments are very varied. It is the most prevalent type of physical disability in children. Any non-progressive central nervous system (CNS) lesion that occurs in the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal period up to 2 years of life is considered CP. Thus, the present work aims to evaluate, monitor and verify the effects of physical therapy interventions on gross motor function, spasticity, balance, muscle activation, fatigue, respiratory system, functionality and social participation in children with cerebral palsy. This work will use some evaluation scales such as the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66), the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), the Early Clinical Assessment of Balance (ECAB), electromyography, the Fatigue Severity Scale and the Pediatric Functional Status. Scale. In addition to questionnaires, which will be applied directly to parents/caregivers, such as the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM), the PEDI (Pediatric Evaluation Disability Inventory) and the Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS).

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Physical Therapy Modalities

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Bobath Concept	Handling of the Bobath Concept
OTHER	Pediasuit	Pediasuit
OTHER	Locomotor training	Locomotor training
OTHER	Stretching	Active, passive, active-assisted stretching
OTHER	Psychomotricity	Psychomotor skills
OTHER	Virtual reality	Virtual reality

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-30
• Primary completion: 2023-05-01
• Completion: 2024-03-01
• First posted: 2022-11-08
• Last updated: 2022-12-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil