NCT05609422

Scooter Board Activities in Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

Effect of Scooter Board Activities on Trunk Postural Control and Gait in Children With Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Badr University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Children with CP may have muscle weakness, changes in mobility, posture, muscle tone, motor coordination and deficits in postural control. These changes, individually or collectively, affect psychomotor function. As a result, activities that are performed quickly and readily by healthy children may be difficult and time-consuming for children with CP.

Detailed description

Similar vestibular stimulation can be provided with ascooter-board which requires more active participation on the part of the child. A scooter-board is simply a wooden board mounted on four castors so that it can roll freely and spin in any direction, it should be big enough to support the middle part of the body while the head, upper chest and legs hang off the ends.

Conditions

• Diplegia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physical therapy program	* Stretching exercises * Strength Training Kneeling exercises * Standing exercises * Gait Training
OTHER	scooter board activities	1. Scooter board bear walk. 2. Scooter board crab walk. 3. Sitting on scooter board, use it to move forward and backward, move the pool rings from one end to another. 4. Cross sitting on scooter board, pulls along the rope using his/her hands 5. Sit with knees pulled into the chest (like a bug pose) and move around with arms only. 6. Prone over scooter board, pulling rope to move forward. Pull self along an anchored rope to retrieve items 7. Scooter rolls outs. Place knees on floor and hands holding the edge of the front scooter board. Push board out a few inches then pull back, the further you roll, the harder it gets. 8. Kneeling, Push self forward and backward with the use of a therapy ball (lots of Motor Planning). 9. Supine flexion on scooter board, Clip clothespins to a rope hanging above.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-11
• Primary completion: 2023-03-12
• Completion: 2023-04-08
• First posted: 2022-11-08
• Last updated: 2023-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt