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Tai Chi-muscle Power Training for Primary School Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder

NCT03598478 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 156

Last updated 2021-11-23

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Summary

Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of Tai Chi-muscle power training (TC-MPT), Tai Chi (TC) alone, muscle power training (MPT) alone, and usual care (as a control) for improving the limits of stability (LOS) of balance control in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and to explore the relationship among LOS, falls, and functional performance in this population.

Design: A randomized controlled trial. Sample: 156 children with DCD. Interventions: TC-MPT, TC alone, MPT alone, or usual care for 12 weeks. Major outcomes: Outcomes will be evaluated at baseline, post-intervention, and a 3-month follow-up. An LOS test will give a dynamic LOS score, an isokinetic test will quantify leg muscle force production speed, Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 will be used to assess functional motor performance, and fall history will be obtained via interviews.

Anticipated results and significance: The TC-MPT group is predicted to display the best LOS balance performance, which is associated with reduced fall incidents and improved functional performance. This novel training regime could be readily adopted into school or clinical settings to improve physical well-being in children with DCD, an outcome with positive socioeconomic implications.

Conditions

  • Developmental Coordination Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

TC-MPT

Participants will receive two levels of training within each 90-minute session over a 12-week period: (1) TC training and (2) MPT. The TC training protocol consists of five basic TC movements. After receiving TC training, the participants in this group will take a 5-minute break and then receive MPT. During MPT, the participants will contract their major postural muscles bilaterally as fast as possible against a resistance equivalent to 70% of one repetition maximum.

BEHAVIORAL

TC

Children in the TC group will skip the MPT session and practice TC movements repeatedly for 90 minutes. The exercise progression pattern in the TC-alone group will be the same as that in the TC-MPT group.

BEHAVIORAL

MPT

Those children in the MPT group will perform strengthening exercises repeatedly for 90 minutes, with a short 5-minute break between the three sets of exercises if necessary. The exercise progression pattern in the MPT-alone group will be the same as that in the TC-MPT group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shirley Fong, PhD · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
9 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-01
Primary Completion
2022-12-31
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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