NCT05636241

Whole Body Vibration in Children With Cerebral Palsy

The Effect of Whole Body Vibration on Walking Parameters in Children With Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kutahya Health Sciences University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Some positive effects of whole body vibration applications in reducing spasticity, improving walking ability, and increasing walking speed have been reported in children with CP, but the evidence is not strong enough. Therefore, this study was planned to evaluate the effect of whole body vibration treatment on spasticity, gait, balance, and motor performance in children with spastic CP. This study hypothesis that whole body vibration provides an additive improvement on spasticity, balance, gait and motor performance.

Detailed description

Participants will be evaluate at baseline, after the conventional physiotherapy program, and after whole body vibration training program. During this period, the participants who were recruited whole body vibration training program, whole body vibration will be applied in addition to conventional physiotherapy sessions comprised 45 min, 2 days a week, during 8 week.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Spastic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	conventional physiotherapy program	The conventional physiotherapy program consists of stretching exercises for lower extremities, strength exercises for core, upper, and lower extremity muscles, sit to stand exercises, and balance exercises.
OTHER	whole body vibration training program	The whole body vibration training program sessions consisted of three 3-min bouts of vibration of 20 Hz and a peak-to-peak amplitude of 2mm with a 3-min rest in between, in addition to conventional physiotherapy exercises for children with cerebral palsy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-20
• Primary completion: 2023-08-20
• Completion: 2023-08-31
• First posted: 2022-12-05
• Last updated: 2023-09-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)