Gait, Spastic
Conditions
Keywords
Ankle;, diplegia, gait, hip excursion, weight
Brief summary
Background: Children with diplegia had considerably larger hip and knee excursion during gait cycle than did normal developing children. Objective: To investigate the effect of using weight around the ankle on hip excursion in children with diplegia.
Detailed description
Fifty children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy were assigned into two groups at random (A, B). Both groups had received the same prescribed exercise program with classical gait training for group A and gait training while using weight around ankle for group B. Treatment was conducted for one hour three sessions per week for successive 3 months. Two-dimensional (2D) gait analysis was used to evaluate hip excursion throughout the gait cycle before and after three months of therapy.
Interventions
walking exercises in different directions
Sponsors
Cairo University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
7 Years to 10 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* able to follow simple basic commands, * identified with gait abnormalities described as level II on Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS). * diagnosed as spastic diplegia.
Exclusion criteria
* severe visual or auditory problems, * lower limb surgical orthopaedic surgery or * BOTOX injection in the six months preceding the start of the study, * and uncontrolled seizures.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| hip excursion | 3 months | hip excursion during gait cycle |
Countries
Egypt
Outcome results
None listed