Effects of Physical Training Following Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy on Non-ambulant Children With Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy

NCT05006144 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2026-04-28

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Summary

Children with spastic bilateral cerebral palsy are late developers. delayed gross and fine motor development require early intervention to improve the child performance and avoid secondary impairments.

Conditions

  • Bilateral Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

OTHER

physical therapy excercises

* Sequenced trunk co-activation exercises * Righting and protective reactions * Functional stretching exercises.

OTHER

Standard Orthotic Management

A custom-made articulating ankle foot orthosis

OTHER

selective dorsal rhizotomy

All SDRs were performed by a single neurosurgeon through an osteoplastic laminotomy from L2 to L5

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hazem A Aly, Phd · PhD of physical therapy for pediatrics, faculty of physical therapyCairo university

  • Ahmed rabie, Phd · Department of neurosurgery, faculty of medicine , Alexandria university

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-08-10
Primary Completion
2024-01-30
Completion
2025-12-24

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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