NCT06339099

Loaded Gait Training on Gross Motor Function in Cerebral Palsy

Enhancing Gross Motor Function and Knee Extensor Strength During Loaded Gait Training in Children with Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the additional effect loaded gait training to conventional physical therapy program on gross motor function and the knee extensors strength in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy. Children were divided randomly into two equal groups. The control group received a conventional physical therapy program, while the intervention group received the same program plus loaded gait training. Gross motor functions and knee extensor strength were measured.

Detailed description

A randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the additional effect loaded gait training to conventional physical therapy program on gross motor function and the knee extensors strength in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (CP). 52 children with bilateral spastic CP, aged 5 to 7 years, were divided randomly into two equal groups. The control group received a conventional physical therapy program, while the intervention group received the same program plus loaded gait training 3 times per week for an hour for 3 months. Gross motor functions were measured by the Gross Motor Function Measure Scale-88 (GMFM-88); standing and walking domains, while knee extensor strength was measured by a hand-held dynamometer.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Conventional physical therapy program	This program included active resisted strengthening exercises for pelvis girdle and lower limb muscles, stretching exercises of tight muscles of lower limbs; hip flexors, hamstrings and calf muscle, balance activities from standing and walking and gait training exercises.
OTHER	Loaded gait training	An extra weight was added around the distal legs during gait training in the intervention group. This weight began at 0.5 kg and was gradually increased every two weeks to a maximum of 2 kg

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-02
• Primary completion: 2024-08-15
• Completion: 2024-08-30
• First posted: 2024-04-01
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt