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Operant Conditioning of the Soleus Stretch Reflex in Adults With Cerebral Palsy

NCT05571033 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2023-09-26

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Summary

12 adults with spastic CP will complete 6 baseline sessions and 24 down conditioning sessions held 3 times/week. All clinical and physiological assessments collected at baseline will be reassessed after study completion, and follow ups after 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months. The soleus H reflex (electric analogue of the stretch reflex) will be elicited in all sessions. In each session, participants will complete 20 baseline trials and 225 down conditioning trials to decrease the magnitude of the H-Reflex.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Spinal reflex conditioning

Each participant will serve as their own control. The intervention is 30 sessions. The first 6 sessions are baseline measures of reflexes. The remaining sessions will engage participants in learning how to decrease their reflex activity in their calf muscle on the more-affected leg. Each intervention visit will involve 20 trials in which participants do not get visual feedback about their performance, then 225 trials with visual feedback.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Burke Medical Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kathleen Friel, PhD · Burke Neurological Institute

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-30
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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