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The Effect of Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy Surgery on Walking in Children With Ambulatory Cerebral Palsy in Turkey

NCT06617507 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2024-09-27

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Summary

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a motor disorder that develops during fetal brain development or due to non-progressive damage to the developing infant brain. These movement and posture disorders are classified as Spastic Type, Dyskinetic Type, Ataxic Type and Mixed Type (Rosenbaum, 2007). Spastic type CP accounts for 20% of all CP cases. Spastic type CP is divided into three groups: diparetic (38%), hemiparetic (39%) and quadriparetic (23%) (Novak et al., 2014).

Lower extremity involvement is more common in diparetic cerebral palsy (DCP) (Donker et al., 2008). 98% of DCP cases vary between GMFS levels I and III. Walking rates are between 86-91% (Novak et al., 2014). Children with DCP can usually walk until the age of 4 (Cottalorda, 1998). However, these walks are often; Due to spasticity, muscle weakness, involuntary co-contraction, deficiencies in selective motor control, balance problems, structural changes of soft tissue and compensatory mechanisms (Manca, 2014), it can lead to musculoskeletal system problems and gait pathologies. Although the cerebral lesion that causes is static, children with spastic diplegia increase in height with age, and they may lose their ability to walk because bone length cannot be accompanied by muscle length at the same rate (Miller, 2020).

Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) surgery is an effective method for spasticity management in children with spastic DCP (Novak et al., 2014). The positive effect of SDR on function and mobility has been proven (Novak et al., 2020).

It has been stated that SDR surgery applied to carefully selected candidates may be beneficial on gait quality in individuals with ambulatory CP (Chen, 2019). SDR surgery has been found to improve walking as a result of information collected from patients through a survey (Park, 2021). The aim of our study is to reveal the effect of SDR surgery performed in Turkey on gait function in children with CP using evaluation scales.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy Spastic Diplegia
  • Gait, Spastic

Interventions

OTHER

Group 1

The Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), The Gillette Functional Assessment Questionnaire (FAQ) and The Edinburgh Visual Gait Score (EVGS) were applied to the participants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Acıbadem Atunizade Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gizem Gürzoğlu · Acıbadem Atunizade Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-05-01
Primary Completion
2024-06-01
Completion
2024-09-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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