NCT04839939

Efficacy of Combination Taping Technique vs Ankle Foot Orthosis on Improving Gait Parameters in Cerebral Palsy

Completed NA Last updated 14 April 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Conventional physical therapy in Gait in 36 participants. Completed in 30 March 2021.

Timeline

1 January 2021

Primary endpoint
15 March 2021

30 March 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Batterjee Medical College
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	36
Start date	1 January 2021
Primary completion	15 March 2021
Estimated completion	30 March 2021
Sites	1 location across Saudi Arabia

Drugs / interventions tested

• Conventional physical therapy
• Ankle Foot Orthosis
• Combination Taping

Conditions studied

• Gait — all drugs for Gait →
• Spastic Diplegia — all drugs for Spastic Diplegia →

Sponsor

Batterjee Medical College

Who can join

Adults 8 to 15, any sex, with Gait or Spastic Diplegia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Gait in children with spastic CP is often characterized by abnormal gait kinematics as knee flexion and equines foot which associated with such gait deviations, an elevated walking energy cost is often observed which may contribute to activity limitations.

The ability to maintain proper joint alignment of the lower extremity, and control the position of the foot in standing and walking is a critical treatment objective for gait in children with cerebral palsy. Lower extremity orthoses, such as ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are widely recommended in children with spastic cerebral palsy to prevent the development or progression of this deformity and to improve the dynamic efficiency of the child's gait. The use of Kinesio taping in pediatric rehabilitation becomes increasingly popular in recent years. Recent systematic reviews reported moderate evidence that Kinesiology taping is a useful adjunct to physiotherapy intervention in higher functioning children with CP. Combination tapings is a technique first introduced by Kenzo Kase, in which Kinesio taping is coupled with the rigid athletic tape to maximize the treatment benefits. This approach remains briefly addressed in the literature with no prior studies has examined the effects of combination tapings in the CP pediatric population. Hypothesis: there is no difference between the effect of combining tapings and ankle-foot orthosis on spatiotemporal gait parameters in spastic cerebral palsied

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Combination taping technique versus ankle foot orthosis on improving gait parameters in spastic cerebral palsy: A controlled randomized study.
   Abdel Ghafar MA, Abdelraouf OR, Abdel-Aziem AA, Mousa GS, et al · · 2021 · cited 8× · PMID 34812472 · DOI 10.2340/jrm.v53.900