The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of Botox and casting to placebo and casting for reducing toe walking problems in children who are idiopathic toe walkers.
Patients who have been seen by one of the 5 paediatric orthopaedic surgeons at British Columbia's Children's Hospital and have been referred to the Shriner's gait lab for assessment of idiopathic toe walking will be eligible for the study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
32
Data not known.
BC Children's Hospital, Department of Orthopaedics
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The primary outcome will be based on gait analysis data - specifically whether post injection gait analyses show a reduction in the features that were used to determine the severity of the subjects' toe walking problem.
Time frame: Data not known
Ankle range of motion (dorsiflexion and plantarflexion)
Time frame: collected at every visit
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