NCT05718388

Contralateral Isokinetic Training on Strength and Reaching Skill

Effect of Contralateral Isokinetic Training on Strength and Reaching Skill in Children With Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Delta University for Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aimed to ascertain how cross-education affected the activity of the paretic muscles in the upper limb and how that affected function in children with spastic hemiplegia and cerebral palsy. Additionally, it sought to determine how unilateral isokinetic resistance training affected children with spastic hemiplegia of the contralateral limb in terms of strength development.

Conditions

• Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physical therapy exercises	For two consecutive months, the children in control group underwent a physiotherapy program for 60min/ three sessions each week: it was based mainly on the neurodevelopment technique, directed toward inhibiting abnormal muscle tone facilitating normal patterns of postural control and hand functions training program
OTHER	Isokinetic training	Children in study group received the same program given to control group (A) in addition to isokinetic resistance training of the less affected upper limb for shoulder abductors in concentric mode at the angular velocity of 180 degree/ second under full supervision on the Biodex isokinetic dynamometer three times per week for 8 weeks, making a total of 24 training sessions. Each child was trained in the seated position with the similar precaution of the testing protocol.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2023-01-20
• Completion: 2023-01-20
• First posted: 2023-02-08
• Last updated: 2023-02-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt