NCT06730763

Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Risk of Falling in Cerebral Palsy Spastic Hemiplegic Children

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to determine: * If there is an effect of transcranial direct current stimulation in improvement the functional balance in CP spastic hemiplegic children. * If there are any changes in risk of falling in CP spastic hemiplegic children or not.

Detailed description

With the decline of mobility comes a drastic increase in falling. However, people of all ages with cerebral palsy can fall easily due to imbalance issues and non-voluntary movements. Individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) can experience a variety of sensorimotor impairments that impact balance, making excessive tripping and falling among the most common concerns for ambulatory individuals with CP. Approximately 53-97% of ambulatory individuals fall at least once per year, causing injury, embarrassment, frustration, activity avoidance, and isolation. Although a study of over 1000 children found fall frequency was highest in gross motor function classification system (GMFCS) level II, research has not explored if this holds across the decades of adulthood.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy (CP)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Transcranial direct current stimulation	Transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) is a non-invasive, painless brain stimulation treatment that uses direct electrical currents to stimulate specific parts of the brain.
OTHER	Exercise	selected traditional physical therapy program for improve balance and decrease risk of falling

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-01
• Primary completion: 2025-02-01
• Completion: 2025-06-01
• First posted: 2024-12-12
• Last updated: 2025-02-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt