Validity of the Kinematic Classification of Gait in Diplegic Children With Cerebral Palsy (CP)

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia86 enrolled

Overview

In recent years Ferrari et al. proposed a new classification of gait in diplegic children with spastic diplegia that describes four different patterns of gait by analyzing the strategies that each children adopts to need his/her needs to walk. The investigators believe that this classification provides the clinician with clinically meaningful information in terms of coping strategies adopted to maximize the ability to walk. The aim of this study is to determine the criterion validity of the new classification of the pattern of gait in children with spastic diplegia by correlating pattern of diplegic gait with the score of the Functional performance measure.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Cerebral Palsy Diplegia, Spastic

Interventions

classification of gait in diplegic children with CPOTHER

To determine the criterion validity of the classification of the pattern of diplegic gait proposed by Ferrari et al. we correlated gait patterns with the score of the FMS.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 12 YearsMax age: 17 Years

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Inclusion Criteria: * diplegia and CP; Exclusion Criteria: * severe mental retardation attested by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders IV * pharmaco-resistant epilepsy * behavioural disorders

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Functional Mobility Scale (FMS)

correlation between the new classification of diplegic gait and the FMS which classifies the functional mobility in children

Time frame: at the age of 12 to 17 years