Effect of Core Stability Excercises Program on Reaching in Children With Cerebral Palsy

Purpose of the study:

To evaluate effect of core stability exercises program on upper limb reaching in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Cerebral Palsy
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: Core stability exercises program; Procedure: Traditional physical therapy program

Detailed Description

Thirty spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsied children of both sexes will be selected from General hospitals and private centers in El-Minia government with the following criteria:

1. The age of the selected children ranged from 3 To 6 years old.
2. Degree of spasticity is ranging from 1 to 1+, according to modified Ashworth scale
3. Children in study group will be treated using core stability exercises program in addition to traditional program and children in the control group will be treated using traditional physical therapy program.
4. Trunk control measurement scale and pediatric reach test will be used to evaluate each child individually before and after 6 successive weeks of treatment, three times per week.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 30
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Cairo, Egypt, 11432
    • Faculty of physical therapy, Cairo University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 3 years to 6 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. The age of the selected children ranged from 3 To 6 years old.
2. Degree of spasticity is ranging from 1 to 1+, according to modified Ashworth scale(Bohannon and Smith, 1987).
3. Children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Fructures and fixed deformities

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: study group; Children in study group treated using core stability exercises program in addition to traditional program	Procedure: Core stability exercises program; Strengthening to the trunk muscles; Procedure: Traditional physical therapy program; Neurodevelopmental training excercises
Active Comparator: control group; Children in the control group treated using traditional physical therapy program.	Procedure: Traditional physical therapy program; Neurodevelopmental training excercises

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pediatric reach test	Reaching score	assessment after 6 weeks of intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Cairo University
• Investigators: Study Director: Mai Abbass, Ph.D., Cairo University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 8, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): August 8, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 23, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 30, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): April 7, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 7, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 30, 2022
• Last Verified: March 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Brain Damage, Chronic; Cerebral Palsy
• Other Study ID Numbers: P.T.REC/012/003125

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No