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The Effect of Therapeutic Climbing on Muscle Strength, Tone and Balance in Hemiplegic Children

NCT05983887 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2025-12-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this randomised controlled trial is to learn about the effect of therapeutic climbing in hemiplegic children. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does climbing affect muscle strength and tone? What is its connection between normative data drawn from healthy children? How can it affect balance?

Participants (children) will be asked to complete an series of movements used in sports climbing, such as inside-flag, back-flag and horizontal traverse, while hanging on an in-door climbing wall.

Conditions

  • Hemiplegia and Hemiparesis

Interventions

OTHER

Therapeutic Climbing

The protocol consists of using an in-door climbing wall as an complementary therapeutic intervention model.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pavlos Kitixis

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas Besios, PhD · University of Thessaly

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-04-10
Primary Completion
2023-08-31
Completion
2023-09-20

Countries

  • Greece

Study Locations

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