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NCT Number: NCT07625878

Music Effect on Concentration and Gait in Cerebral Palsy Children During Physical Therapy Sessions

* To investigate the effect of music therapy as an additional intervention with physical therapy on concentration in children with spastic CP. * To investigate the effect of music therapy as an additional intervention with physical therapy on gait parameters for the children with spastic CP.

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Key information

Conditions

Attention Gait

Age range

5 year–7 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Faculty of Physical Therapy Cairo University

Dokki, Giza Governorate, 02, Egypt

About this study

Physical therapy only could be not attractive for child if it done by the traditional way; focus on motor part and no need to involve the sensory part through the rehabilitation.

Sense of hearing could be a unique one to stimulate for a better child attention during physical therapy session, even child with blindness could benefit from this idea.

Using music for attracting attention of the child as a therapeutic way so the child can walk properly regarding time and pace.

Singing as a live form of music could be more sensitive and interactive for child-therapist bond which is important to include the child as an active participant as child is being rehabilitated not just treatment.

Rehabilitation means to involve the child as a whole at this complicated process, not to move a passive limb.

Rehabilitation of CP:

  • A "temporal axis": Habilitation/rehabilitation should begin early and continuously - a minimum within the first years of child's life - and intensively - individually designed to meet child's needs.
  • A "spatial axis": where individual space, family, school, and social affair places must be all considered.
  • An "individual axis": Rehabilitation must observe the child as an active participant, not as a passive person of whom needs care.
  • A "relational axis": the standard of taking into consideration the relationship of the child and people who take care of him/her in different contexts of their life (Trabacca et al., 2016).

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • • The children age ranged from 5 to 7 years old (early childhood).
  • Spasticity degree ranges from 1 to 1+ as measured by the Modified Ashworth Scale
  • Children with lack of concentration according to MARS (Moss Attention Rating Scale)
  • Children can stand alone and walk.

Exclusion criteria

  • • Children with deafness.

Treatment and study plan

Music Therapy

Behavioral

Neurologic music therapy (NMT) Listening to music and moving rhythmically.

physical therapy traditional

Other

program for gait improvement ( Standing, balance and gait training)

Primary outcomes

  1. concentration as a cognitive function

    Time frame: pre intervention and 3 months post intervention

    ability of child to pay attention during physical therapy sessions and be interactive with the therapist, measured by Moss Attention Rating Scale, score of 22 (minimum score) to less than 110 (maximum score), Higher scores indicate better attention.

  2. Gait

    Time frame: pre intervention and 3 months post intervention

    improvement measured by Gross motor function measure 88 (gait section), 0 (minimum score) to 100 (maximum score) percentage %

  3. Kinovea, (Spatial and Temporal Parameters)

    Time frame: pre and 3 months post intervention

    Kinovea, (Spatial and Temporal Parameters); Step length in centimeters (higher score better)

  4. Kinovea, (Spatial and Temporal Parameters) ; stride length in centimeters (higher score better)

    Time frame: pre and 3 months post intervention

    Kinovea, (Spatial and Temporal Parameters); stride length in centimeters (higher score better)

  5. Gait (cadence)

    Time frame: pre and 3 months post intervention

    Using Kinovea, cadence measured in steps\\minute (lower score better).

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Maya Galal Abd-Alwahab, Doctorate

CONTACT

[email protected]

+201141904589

Shrouk Mahmoud Mohamed researcher at Cairo university faculty of physical therapy, master

CONTACT

[email protected]

+201002952353

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Cairo University

Other

Collaborators

  • physical therapy of cairo university

Registry information

Official study title

Effect of Physiotherapy With Auditory Cueing on Concentration and Gait in Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Acronym: NMT\CP

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2027
First posted
Jun 4, 2026
Registry last updated
Jun 4, 2026

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