Effect of Nordic Walking on Gait-asymmetry Patterns in Children With Hemiparesis

Cairo University40 enrolled

Overview

Nordic walking is a physical activity consisting of walking with poles similar to ski poles. The poles are designed for the purpose of activating the upper body during walking. The poles are equipped with rubber or spike tips and the walking itself resembles.

Compared to normal walking in Nordic walking there is a stronger involvement of the upper body. Furthermore, by using the poles, the muscles in the upper body can be activated, and the length of each step taken is supposedly increased, resulting in a faster gait .

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

designed physical therapy programOTHER

it will be applied for for 60 min weekly for 3 successive months in the form of three sets of exercises (15minutes each) as follows: * Flexibility exercises to restore joint mobility of soft tissues. * Static and dynamic balance exercises * Functional strengthening exercises. * Functional gait training.

Nordic walkingOTHER

it will be conducted according to the guidelines of the International Nordic Walking Federation

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 YearsMax age: 10 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Their age will range from 6-10 years, from both sexes. * Level I, II and III of gross motor functional classification system (GMFCS) (Jooyeon et al., 2011) * Grade 1 and 1+ spasticity according to the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS). (Cloptonetal et al., 2005). Exclusion Criteria: * Uncontrolled epilepsy. * Mental retardation or autistic features. * Significant visual or auditory problems according to medical reports (audio-vestibular and ophthalmic examination), * Structural or fixed soft tissue deformities of the lower and/or upper extremities. * Neurological or orthopedic surgery in the past 12 months in the lower and/or upper extremities. * Botox injection in the lower and/or upper extremities in the past 6 months.

Locations (1)

Cairo University

Giza, Egypt

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Assessment of gait

The gait parameters will be assessed by kinovea software. Kinovea, free 2D motion analysis software, was created in 2009 via the non-profit collaboration of several researchers, athletes, coaches and programmers from all over the world. It enables the analysis of distances, angles, coordinates and spatial-temporal parameters frame by frame from a video recording. These measurements can be made from different perspectives, since the software carries out calibrations in non-perpendicular planes to the camera-object line analyzed. spatio-temporal parameters will be measured

Time frame: after 3 successive months

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