Gait Analysis and Interdisciplinary Interventions for Children With Cerebral Palsy

Summary

The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis, that improvements in gait pattern following individually tailored interventions guided by instrumented 3-dimensional gait analysis are superior to those used in 'care as usual'.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

OTHER

Intervention with IGA

Individually tailored interdisciplinary intervention based on measures performed as part of the Cerebral Palsy follow-Up Program and other clinical examinations AND instrumented gait analysis The instrumented gait analysis consists of four steps: 1. Instrumented gait analysis (data collection with a 8-camera Vicon T40 system (Vicon, Oxford, UK) and 2 force plates (AMTI, OR6-7-1000) 2. Impairment-Focused Interpretation 3. Recommendation for interdisciplinary interventions 4. Dissemination of recommendations The two modalities differs in the use of IGA, but the study is not indented to document the effect of IGA alone, but to document the difference in the effects of the interdisciplinary interventions, when IGA is implemented to the experimental group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Odense University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Sonderborg Hospital

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Sygehus Lillebaelt

  collaborator OTHER

• Esbjerg Hospital - University Hospital of Southern Denmark

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Salford

  collaborator OTHER

• Region of Southern Denmark

  collaborator OTHER

• Ludvig and Sara Elsass Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Association of Danish Physiotherapists

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Southern Denmark

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Helle Rasmussen, Ph.d. stud. · University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital

• Anders Holsgaard-Larsen, Ph.d. · University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

5 Years

Max Age

8 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-08-06

Primary Completion

2017-07-05

Completion

2017-07-05

Countries

• Denmark

Study Locations