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Rhythmic Motor Learning in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorders

NCT03150784 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 87

Last updated 2018-05-30

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Summary

The importance of play and physical activity include many benefits on positively improving health and well-being, enhancing children's and young people's thinking and performance in school, improving their sleep and enabling confidence and skill building. However, some children find it hard to learn and perform motor skills, and are at risk of decreased participation in sports and physical activity and subsequently decreased physical fitness and overall health and well-being.

Previous studies from the research group have explored the impact and recovery following acute exercise at different intensities in children and adolescents with and without movement difficulties. Following this, a pathway promoting physical activity and engagement has been successfully established within schools for those with and without movement difficulties. Taking the previous studies further, we want to specifically focus on the children's performance and learning of a sporting skill, such as stepping, and the associated brain activity changes, using available high resolution imaging techniques. This will help us understand how these children perform and learn motor and sporting skills. Evidence obtained from imaging alongside measures of movement has helped the development of optimal therapeutic approaches for other conditions such as stroke and Parkinson's and will help us to develop approaches to help children best learn motor skills and hence gain confidence in performing sporting activities.

Conditions

  • Developmental Coordination Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

EPIC Club

Weekly exercise gym sessions. Participants will start with a warm-up of 20-25 mins cardiovascular training either doing cycling, treadmill running or cross-training. The remainder of the session consists of strength/resistance and weight-training involving leg press, leg extensor, pull downs, kettle bells, dumbbells. In addition to the above, a novel rhythmical stepping task will be performed over 10 mins.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oxford

    collaborator OTHER

  • National University of Ireland, Maynooth

    collaborator OTHER

  • Oxford Brookes University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-31
Primary Completion
2018-08-31
Completion
2018-08-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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