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Title: Role of Rebound Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy
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Abstract
Background: Cerebral Palsy is a universal neurological disorder that limits motor functions, declines balance, and deteriorates coordination in children. Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of rebound therapy on gross motor function, balance, and gross motor coordination in children with spastic cerebral palsy. Subjects and Methods: Thirty-six subjects with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy were engaged to this study. They were on level I on gross motor functional classification system, aged from five to eleven years, and scored 1 or 1+ on modified Ashworth{u2019} scale. Gross motor functional measure was used to evaluate walking, running and jumping dimension and total gross motor functions; Biodex balance system was used to evaluate balance in terms of overall, anteroposterior, and mediolateral stability indexes; and the gross motor form of Bruininks-Oseretesky Test of Motor Proficiency-2 was used to evaluate body coordination, strength and agility, and total gross motor composite.Rebound therapy using mini trampoline was used in addition to specially designed rehabiltation program on the Rebound therapy group Results:The study revealed that the Rebound therapy group that used rebound therapy had a statistically significant increase compared to the control group in the walking, running and jumping dimesion (p=0.04), total gross motor score(p=0.01), a statistically significant decrease in overall stability index(p=0.01), anteroposterior stability index(p<0.0001), mediolateral stability index (p=0.03), and statistically significant increase in body coordination (p=0.01), and gross motor composite(p=0.02). On the other hand, the study revealed no statistical significance in strength and agility (p=0.3), but it showed a clinical significance with 15.99% of improvement