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Balance Training With TENS for Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

NCT06424990 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2024-10-01

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Summary

Children with spastic diplegic Cerebral Palsy (CP) often show motor impairment due to a number of deficits; including poor muscle control, weakness, spasticity and reduced range of motion in the extremities. All these factors affect the ability of children with CP to maintain balance and walk which are the primary rehabilitation concerns of parents and clinicians. The Balance Trainer provides a safe balance environment and assists with muscle activation of ankle and hip joints, and it is hypothesized that to promote spasticity inhibition, the use of TENS may decrease hyper-excitability, modulate reciprocal inhibition, and increase presynaptic inhibition. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the current study is the first research to investigate the effect of using Biodex balance training with TENS in improving children with spastic diplegia.

Conditions

  • Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

OTHER

balance training with TENS

children will receive Biodex balance training with TENS for 30 minutes a day, 5 days per week for 4 weeks

OTHER

Balance training with placebo TENS

children will receive Biodex balance training with placebo TENS for the same period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-05-20
Primary Completion
2024-07-20
Completion
2024-07-30

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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