Scooter Board Activities in Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

NCT ID: NCT05609422

Last Updated: 2023-04-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-11-11
• Study Completion Date: 2023-04-08

Brief Summary

Children with CP may have muscle weakness, changes in mobility, posture, muscle tone, motor coordination and deficits in postural control. These changes, individually or collectively, affect psychomotor function. As a result, activities that are performed quickly and readily by healthy children may be difficult and time-consuming for children with CP.

Detailed Description

Similar vestibular stimulation can be provided with ascooter-board which requires more active participation on the part of the child. A scooter-board is simply a wooden board mounted on four castors so that it can roll freely and spin in any direction, it should be big enough to support the middle part of the body while the head, upper chest and legs hang off the ends.

Conditions

Diplegia

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

control group

Received the designed physical therapy program.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Physical therapy program

Intervention Type: OTHER

• Stretching exercises
• Strength Training Kneeling exercises
• Standing exercises
• Gait Training

study group

Received a designed physical therapy program in addition to scooter bord activities.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Physical therapy program

Intervention Type: OTHER

• Stretching exercises
• Strength Training Kneeling exercises
• Standing exercises
• Gait Training

scooter board activities

Intervention Type: OTHER

1. Scooter board bear walk.

2. Scooter board crab walk.

3. Sitting on scooter board, use it to move forward and backward, move the pool rings from one end to another.

4. Cross sitting on scooter board, pulls along the rope using his/her hands

5. Sit with knees pulled into the chest (like a bug pose) and move around with arms only.

6. Prone over scooter board, pulling rope to move forward. Pull self along an anchored rope to retrieve items

7. Scooter rolls outs. Place knees on floor and hands holding the edge of the front scooter board. Push board out a few inches then pull back, the further you roll, the harder it gets.

8. Kneeling, Push self forward and backward with the use of a therapy ball (lots of Motor Planning).

9. Supine flexion on scooter board, Clip clothespins to a rope hanging above.

Interventions

Physical therapy program

• Stretching exercises
• Strength Training Kneeling exercises
• Standing exercises
• Gait Training

Intervention Type: OTHER

scooter board activities

1. Scooter board bear walk.

2. Scooter board crab walk.

3. Sitting on scooter board, use it to move forward and backward, move the pool rings from one end to another.

4. Cross sitting on scooter board, pulls along the rope using his/her hands

5. Sit with knees pulled into the chest (like a bug pose) and move around with arms only.

6. Prone over scooter board, pulling rope to move forward. Pull self along an anchored rope to retrieve items

7. Scooter rolls outs. Place knees on floor and hands holding the edge of the front scooter board. Push board out a few inches then pull back, the further you roll, the harder it gets.

8. Kneeling, Push self forward and backward with the use of a therapy ball (lots of Motor Planning).

9. Supine flexion on scooter board, Clip clothespins to a rope hanging above.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. CP with a diplegia

2. Age 7 to 11 years

3. Grade 1and 2 according to the Modified Ashworth scale (RW and Smith, 1987).

4. They could walk with limitation or holding on according to GMFCS (level I&II &III) (Palisano et al., 1997).

5. They were able to understand and follow verbal instructions

Exclusion Criteria

1. Children with any surgical interference in the upper limb.

2. intellectual disability such that simple tasks could not be understood or executed.

3. Children with any visual or auditory problems.

4. Children with any surgical interference in the lower limb.

5. Children with any structural deformities in joints and bones of lower limbs.

6. Children who suffer from other diseases or associated disorders that interfered with physical activity.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 7 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 11 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Badr University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Omnya Samy Abdallah Ghoneim

Lecturer, Department of Physical Therapy for Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Egypt.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Omnya samy, PHD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

lecturer

Locations

Badr University

Badr, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Other Identifiers

Omnya 2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id