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Gait Improvement After Increased Frequency of Robot-assisted Gait Training in Cerebral Palsy Children

NCT05412485 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2022-06-09

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Summary

Robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) can provide a longer training duration with a higher repetition of stepping while maintaining a stable pattern of movement. However, the existing evidence of its effectiveness is not clear. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility and the effect of increased frequency (4 times per week) of RAGT compared to the most common frequency (2 times per week). we hypothesize that increased frequency of RAGT will result in greater improvements on the gait functions. This research will investigate the effect of increased frequency on robotic assisted gait training (RAGT) in a frequency of 4 times per a week, and will compare the effect of robotic assisted gait training (RAGT) with increased frequency and with usual frequency (2 times per a week) in regards with gait functional parameters such as balance, speed, endurance, and quality of gait among cerebral palsy (CP) children's.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy Spastic Diplegia

Interventions

OTHER

Robotic assisted gait training

Robotic assisted gait training is advanced technology used in the rehabilitation of neurological injuries and conditions like spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, cerebral palsy. It provides a repetitive task-specific motor training and modulates afferent input to spinal cord to generate rhythmic gait patterns that may be transformed to overground walking. The intensive repetitions of the rhythmic stepping movement during the training stimulates dependent plasticity and it may lead to brain reorganization. It facilitates cortical neural activities associated with motor control of walking.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sharjah

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Meeyoung Kim, PhD · University of Sharjah

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-07
Primary Completion
2022-07-30
Completion
2022-07-30

Countries

  • United Arab Emirates

Study Locations

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