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Operant Conditioning of the Soleus Stretch Reflex in Adults With Cerebral Palsy
Sponsor: Burke Medical Research Institute
Summary
12 adults with spastic CP will complete 6 baseline sessions and 24 down conditioning sessions held 3 times/week. All clinical and physiological assessments collected at baseline will be reassessed after study completion, and follow ups after 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months. The soleus H reflex (electric analogue of the stretch reflex) will be elicited in all sessions. In each session, participants will complete 20 baseline trials and 225 down conditioning trials to decrease the magnitude of the H-Reflex.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
12
Start Date
2022-09-30
Completion Date
2026-12-31
Last Updated
2023-09-26
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Spinal reflex conditioning
Each participant will serve as their own control. The intervention is 30 sessions. The first 6 sessions are baseline measures of reflexes. The remaining sessions will engage participants in learning how to decrease their reflex activity in their calf muscle on the more-affected leg. Each intervention visit will involve 20 trials in which participants do not get visual feedback about their performance, then 225 trials with visual feedback.
Locations (1)
Burke Neurological Institute
White Plains, New York, United States