Effect of Using Adaptive Seating Equipment on Hand Function

Summary

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of adaptive swiss ball seating as an alternative for standard chair seating on hand function in children with hemiparesis. Subjects: A total of 30 spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsied children (19 boys and 11 girls), aged 3-6 years participated in this study. They were randomly assigned into control and study groups of equal numbers each consisted of fifteen children (n=15). Methods: Peabody Developmental Motor Scales 2 (PDMS-2) was used to evaluate each child individually before and after three successive months of treatment (3 sessions per week), to assess 2 subtests (the grasping skills and visual motor integration skills) for all children of both groups. Control group who received a specially selected physical therapy program for hand function on a standard chair seating. Study group who received the same selected program for hand function on adaptive swiss ball seating.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

OTHER

Traditional seat group

Each child in the control group was asked to conduct or follow instructions given for him or her to conduct the following hand function tasks for three successive months of treatment, three times per week (every other day): 1. Building towers and shapes with different textures weights and bright colors. 2. Inserting different shapes in the correct hole. 3. Dropping pellets. 4. Stringing beads. 5. Copying square and triangle. 6. Opening the bottle and close it. 7. Folding and Crumpling paper. 8. Cutting paper by scissors. 9. Tracing line and connecting dots. 10. Reaching above the level of shoulder. 11. Reaching across the midline. 12. Squeezing water out of a sponge. 13. Buttoning and unbuttoning button. 14. Playing clapping games. 15. Turning pages in a book. 16. Lacing string. 17. Picking up a small piece of food and bringing it into the palm. 18. Moving a penny from the palm to the fingers. 19. Removing socks. 20. Brush the teeth.

OTHER

Adaptive seating equipment group

Each child in the study group was asked to conduct or follow instructions given for him or her to conduct the following hand function tasks for three successive months of treatment, three times per week (every other day): 1. Building towers and shapes with different textures weights and bright colors. 2. Inserting different shapes in the correct hole. 3. Dropping pellets. 4. Stringing beads. 5. Copying square and triangle. 6. Opening the bottle and close it. 7. Folding and Crumpling paper. 8. Cutting paper by scissors. 9. Tracing line and connecting dots. 10. Reaching above the level of shoulder. 11. Reaching across the midline. 12. Squeezing water out of a sponge. 13. Buttoning and unbuttoning button. 14. Playing clapping games. 15. Turning pages in a book. 16. Lacing string. 17. Picking up a small piece of food and bringing it into the palm. 18. Moving a penny from the palm to the fingers. 19. Removing socks. 20. Brush the teeth.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cairo University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Mai Abbass, Ph.D. · Cairo University

• Ahmed Mahrous, Msc · Cairo University

• Elham Salem, Ph.D. · Cairo University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Years

Max Age

6 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-02-01

Primary Completion

2018-08-15

Completion

2018-08-30

Countries

• Egypt

Study Locations