NCT07096817

Effects of a Highly Intensive Balance Therapy Camp in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder

Fundamental Insights Into the Interplay Between Postural Control and Motor Development in Children With DCD: a Synergistic Approach of Functional Evaluations, Neuromechanics and Brain Activity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hasselt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main objective of this clinical trial is to investigate the short (immediately after intervention) and medium term (three month) effects of a highly intensive, comprehensive postural control 6-day therapy camp in school-aged children (6 to 12 years) with developmental coordination disorder at different levels of the The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework.

Conditions

• Developmental Coordination Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Highly intensive individualized balance therapy	In the form of a camp with total therapy hours of 40 hours with a central theme of "Circus", children will receive individualized (1 therapist per child) intensive therapy. The intervention is functional, and divided in six activity categories: jumping, sitting balance, walking and running, circus, individual goals and group activities with focus on social interaction. Each category should: 1. partially or fully cover the multisystemic balance framework of Horak, with the overall program covering the entire framework, 2. be fun and focusing on collaboration rather than competition.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-02
• Primary completion: 2024-11-30
• Completion: 2024-11-30
• First posted: 2025-07-31
• Last updated: 2025-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium