Effects of Elastic Band Use on Posture and Gait Improvement in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy

The Effect of Elastic Band Use for Pelvic Posterior Tilt on Foot Pressure and Gait During Static and Dynamic Posture Maintenance in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

CRIS

Registry ID

KCT0010780

Enrollment

Registered

2025-07-17

Start date

2024-12-09

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-07-21

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Others(Pelvis-Knee Elastic Band Application) : ? The 24 selected participants will be randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group, with 12 participants in each group, using

Lee et al., 2017). The elastic band setup consists of a total of three green elastic bands: one for the pelvic region and one for each knee (left and right).

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1) Patients who voluntarily provided informed consent or whose legal representatives provided consent on their behalf. 2) Adolescent patients diagnosed with cerebral palsy by a pediatrician or pediatric neurologist(A person aged 9 to 24 years, as stipulated in Article 3, Paragraph 1 of the Juvenile Welfare Support Act) 3) Patients classified under Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) Level I (able to walk without restrictions) or Level II (able to walk without assistive devices but with limitations). 4) Individuals who scored 24 or higher on the Korean version of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1) Patients with acute or chronic lung disease. 2) Patients with heart failure.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
plantar pressure	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
plantar contact area	—

Countries

Korea, Republic of

Contacts

Public ContactSunHae Song

Kyungnam University

sjm599@naver.com+82-55-223-2599

Outcome results