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NCT07233044
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Effect of Visually-Guided Gait Training on Balance, Mobility and Risk of Falling in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

Sponsor: Cairo University

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Summary

The aim of this study is to assess both immediate and long-term effects of visually-guided gait training on balance, mobility, and risk of falling in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Official title: Effect of Visually-Guided Gait Training on Balance, Mobility and Risk of Falling in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Controlled Study

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

20 Years - 45 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

40

Start Date

2025-11-30

Completion Date

2026-04-30

Last Updated

2025-12-22

Healthy Volunteers

No

Interventions

OTHER

Visually-guided gait training

The program runs for eight weeks, with two 60-minute sessions per week, integrating gaze strategy, task-specific mobility, and dual-task cognitive training. Participants first learn systematic visual scanning using saccades and gridline searches. In task-specific training, they perform precision walking-stepping accurately on targets-and obstacle avoidance, navigating a 6 m path with variable pole positions to enhance visual-motor coordination. Finally, dual-task training adds cognitive challenges, such as word generation or backward counting, to improve attention, adaptability, and functional mobility.

OTHER

Conventional gait training

It will be received for eight weeks, twice per week, each session lasting 30 minutes, consisting of standing and walking activities maintaining a stable base of support; static postural control exercises, weight shifting and perturbations exercises, weight-bearing exercises through lower limbs; and adequate weight transfer and forward progression with trunk, limb, and pelvic kinematics consistent with safe walking, walking forward and backward, side-stepping, standing and walking on varied surfaces.

Locations (1)

Kafrelsheikh University Hospital

Kafr ash Shaykh, Egypt