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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
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
Conditions
Interventions
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.
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