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Effects of Bean Bag Tossing Game Using Static and Dynamic Surface on Balance and Gait in Children With Down Syndrome

Status: Recruiting

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Intervention Type: Other

Study Type: Interventional

Study Phase: Not Applicable

SUMMARY

The research design will be a randomized clinical trial. The study will recruit 36 children with spastic cerebral palsy and toe walking that fall within the ages of 5-17 years who have a defined balance deficit. The participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: group A (n=18), which will play the Bean Bag Tossing Game on Wedge, and group B (n=18), which will play the Bean Bag Tossing Game on a Balance Board. The intervention will be performed 3 times a week for 4 weeks 30 minutes a day. All participants will be assessed according to eligibility criteria. Guardians of participants who meet the eligibility criteria are requested to sign consent forms before they are entered into the study. The study involves two standardized assessment tools that measure the Gait and balance in children with Down syndrome: Berg Balance Scale and GALLOP Scale. The synopsis will present to the Research Ethical Committee of Riphah International University Lahore for ethical approval to conduct this study. Data will be analyzed by SPSS 27.0 version

Eligibility

Participation Requirements

Sex: All

Minimum Age: 5

Maximum Age: 17

Healthy Volunteers: f

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• Ageof7-12years

• Abletorecognize the command given to them

• Understand the verbal command

• Standand walk independently without repeated falling

• Normalvisualization and Audible range

Locations

Other Locations

Pakistan

Imran Amjad

RECRUITING

Lahore

Contact Information

Primary

Imran Amjad, PhD

imran.amjad@riphah.edu.pk

9233224390125

Backup

Muhammad Asif Javed, MS-PT

a.javed@riphah.edu.pk

923224209422

Time Frame

Start Date: 2025-10-28

Estimated Completion Date: 2026-06-15

Participants

Target number of participants: 36

Treatments

Experimental: Bean Bag Tossing Game on Wedge.

In this group first the Children will be given the baseline therapy of backward walking for 10 minutes, single leg standing, vertical or horizontal jumps for 10 minutes and then given the balance training by playing bean bag tossing game while standing on wedge. Bean bag boards should be placed 1 foot apart from the tossing line. Use a rope (or another object) to mark the tossing line. The child will take 3 bean bags while standing on the wedge and ask the child to toss the bean bags in the bean bag board one by one starting to stand on wedge from 5 minutes to increases the time to maximum 10minutes

Other: Bean Bag Tossing Game on Balance Board

In this group first the Children will be given the baseline therapy of backward walking for 10 minutes, single leg standing, vertical or horizontal jumps for 10 minutes (18) and then given the balance training by playing bean bag tossing game while standing on a balance board. Bean bag boards should be placed 1 foot apart from the tossing line. Use a rope (or another object) to mark the tossing line. The child will take 3 bean bags while standing on a balance board and ask the child to toss the bean bags in the bean bag board one by one. Ask the child to maintain the balance while standing on balance board

Related Therapeutic Areas

Cerebral Palsy

Spasticity

Down Syndrome

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