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Whole Body Vibration and BOSU Ball in Spastic Cerebral Palsy

NCT06407921 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2024-09-19

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Summary

Cerebral palsy is a non-progressive neurodevelopmental disorder, also known as littles disease. The most common cause of physical and mental disabilities in the pediatric population. Cerebral means brain and palsy means weakness or problems in muscles. Spastic cerebral palsy is the common type of cerebral palsy characterized by spasticity or high muscle tone, results in stiffness etc.

This will be a randomized clinical trial, data will be collected from Sehat medical complex Lahore. Study will be conducted on 30 patients. Inclusion criteria of this study is spastic diplegic CP children with age between 6 to 12 years, with GMFCS level 1 and 2 and those both male nd female, able to understand command will be included. Those diplegic spastic CP who have orthopedic intervention/surgery, botulinum toxin injection within past six months, or medical problems such as pneumonia that prevented children from participating in exercises will be excluded.

Conditions

  • Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

DEVICE

Whole Body Vibration

On vibration plate pate child will do kneeling, and one leg standing, standing horizontally or vertically. Along routine physical therapy such as stretching activities to keep up muscle elasticity particularly Achilles tendon, hamstring muscles, hip flexors and adductors, shoulder internal rotators, elbow and wrist flexors, pronators, and ulnar deviators, each stretch will be given for 30 seconds with 3 repetitions.Strength training to hip flexor, knee extensor, and ankle dorsiflexors for 15 minutes 3 times a week for 8 weeks. Session will be of 30 minutes

DEVICE

BOSU ball

Exercises such as (1) standing on a BOSU ball while throwing and catching a ball (2) 1-legged standing (affected leg) on the BOSU ball while throwing and catching a ball with therapist support; and (3) small jumps on the BOSU ball. Three sets of 6 repetitions for each exercise will be perform every 2 weeks up to a maximum of 10 repetitions if the participants were still able to perform the training easily. Total dose of balance training in 1 session will be 15 minutes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Riphah International University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hafsa Imtiaz, MS* · Riphah International University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-06-28
Primary Completion
2024-08-08
Completion
2024-08-15

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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