MOTION - Clinical Gait Analysis: Normative Data for Children with CP
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Mechanised Orthosis for children with neurological disorders (MOTION) project - Clinical Gait Analysis: Normative Data for Children with Cerebral Palsy (CP)
IRAS ID
288842
Contact name
Markus Hunt
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Canterbury Christ Church University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 2 months, 19 days
Research summary
The MOTION project, funded by EU INTERREG 2SEAS, is a multidisciplinary, international study which focuses on the development of wearable, robotic assistive walking devices for children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and its application in the care of this group of children. Robotic assistive walking devices have already been developed and used in rehabilitation for adults with mobility disabilities, but there are very few examples of such technology for children with mobility issues. The project is being conducted in four partner countries-France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK. The UK is the lead partner for the part of the MOTION project which this application for ethical approval applies to.
The purpose of this part of the project is to produce a dataset of normative clinical gait analysis data on children with cerebral palsy. Participants will be required to attend a minimum of one clinical gait analysis testing session at Chailey Clinical Services, Sussex Community NHS FT. In addition, ten participants will be asked to attend a second clinical gait analysis testing session for our repeatability study. At each visit, participants' gait will be assessed during a barefoot walking condition and an ankle foot orthosis (AFO) walking condition. Researchers from Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Greenwich will conduct the clinical gait analysis assessment.
Clinical gait analysis will provide objective identification of gait deviations. This information will be used to help inform the design and development of robotic assistive devices for the MOTION project. The purpose of the repeatability testing is to compare the variability in clinical gait analysis data between two testing sessions. Data from this study will be used as control group data for our intervention studies involving robotic assistive walking devices. A separate application will be submitted for our studies involving robotic assistive walking devices.
REC name
London - Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/PR/0927
Date of REC Opinion
12 Jul 2021
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion