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Motor Imagery Training in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy

NCT03954808 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 51

Last updated 2020-10-14

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Summary

Motor imagery (MI) is a promising method to improve more cognitive aspects of motor behaviour, and may, thus, be effective for facilitating motor planning in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). MI training facilitates the neural plasticity by enhancing the neuronal cortical pathways in brain. In children with CP, motor planning and MI capacity were found to be affected by studies. In the literature, there are studies about the evaluation of MI in Unilateral CP but there is insufficient number of studies included in MI in the rehabilitation program.

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of motor imagery training for gait and lower extremity muscle activity (with EMG), functional capacity, quality of life, and time performance variables in Children with Unilateral CP.

The eligible participants will be allocated three groups, including motor imagery training group, traditional physiotherapy control group, and healthy control group. All the assessments will be performed before and after the training in the 8-week motor imagery training group and 6 weeks after the end of training. The participants in the control group will be evaluated with a 8-week interval and 6 weeks after the end of physiotherapy training. The healthy participants will be assessed only once. The motor imagery training will be designed for the individual basis with standard protocols. It will be applied two times a week for 8 weeks. All sessions will be performed in the clinic.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

OTHER

Motor Imagery Training

Motor imagery training will be designed for the individual basis with standard protocols

OTHER

Traditional physiotherapy

Traditional physiotherapy within a specific program

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Abant Izzet Baysal University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eylem T Yümin · Abant Izzet Baysal University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-01
Primary Completion
2020-03-01
Completion
2020-07-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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