NCT06802094

Movement Strategies During Balance Tasks in Children With and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder

Case-Control Research of the Movement Strategies Used During Balance Tasks in Children With and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hasselt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The main objective of the study is to gain insights in how children learn a balance task and whether there is a difference between children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder. Furthermore, the investigators are interested in the brain activity of these children while learning this new balance task.

Conditions

• Development Coordination Disorder
• Typical Developed Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Single-session balance intervention in virtual reality	Single-session balance intervention (30 minutes) in a virtual reality environment, the Gait Real-time analysis Interactive Lab (GRAIL) or the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (Motek Medical, The Netherlands).

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-08-18
• Primary completion: 2027-08-01
• Completion: 2027-08-01
• First posted: 2025-01-30
• Last updated: 2025-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium