Cerebral Palsy, spastic diplegia
Conditions
Interventions
Upper limbs weight-bearing exercises protocol compared to a conventional physical therapy treatment for control group and to a second control group without therapies.
The protocol was applied in 5 sub
C) Upper limbs weight-bearing exercises in sitting position.
The control group, consisted of 5 subjects, received conventional physical therapy treatment for the same period and frequency.
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Eligibility
Age
3 Years to 13 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children with clinical follow-up at AACD; diagnosed with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy; age between 3 and 13 years old; using type of gait aid; classified level III of GMFCS (Gross Motor Function Classification System); able to attend the institution twice times a week; with 5 subjects for each group (total of 15 subjects).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with less than 6 months of orthopedic surgical procedure and less than 3 months of neuromuscular blocking.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| After 12 weeks of protocol beneficial effects to the gait performance are expected compared to the other groups. Evaluate by Six-Minute Walk Test, Ten-meter Walk Test and Timed Up and Go test applied before and after the 12 weeks of protocol. The level of significance considered was 5% virified by the t test paired.;No statistically significant difference was found between the results after 12 weeks of protocol, of Six-Minute Walk Test, Ten-meter Walk Test and Timed Up and Go test in the in the interventional group. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| After 12 weeks of protocol beneficial effects are expected for uppper limb weight bearing capacity, evalueted in a force plate, and an improvement of trunk control in the trunk impairment scale.The level of significance considered was 5%. ;Statistically significant difference was found in the trunk control capacity for intervencional group, correlated with static balance capacity, and for the control group, correlated with dynamic balance capacity. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactCarolina;Flávia Maeda;Machado
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Outcome results
None listed