ReviewJournal of exercise rehabilitation2020
Effectiveness of treadmill training on gait function in children with cerebral palsy: meta-analysis.
Review in Journal of exercise rehabilitation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effectiveness of Physical Therapy for Improving the Functionality, Gait and Participation in the Environment in Children and Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy: Randomized Clinical Trial
Effect of Treadmill Gait Training Combined With Conventional Physiotherapy on Gait Performance and Functional Mobility in Children With Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Evidence-based management and motor rehabilitation of cerebral palsy children and adolescents: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Decreased sleep quality in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a meta-analysis.Clinical rheumatology · 2021Pooled it
- Comparative Effects of Partial Body Weight-Supported and Loaded Treadmill Training on Motor Performance in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Trial
- Effects of modified pilates on trunk, postural control, gait and balance in children with cerebral palsy: a single-blinded randomized controlled study.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2022Trial
- How infants learn (to walk): Transitions are a fundamental component of practice.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Nursing interventions including psychological support and quality of life determinants in patients with dysphagia following stroke.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2026Review
- Effects of physical exercises on balance in children with down syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Effects of Equine-Assisted Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of Physiotherapy for Improving Participation, Gross Motor Function, Gait and Balance in Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Care Pathways in Rehabilitation for Children and Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy: Distinctiveness of the Adaptation to the Italian Context.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Comparison of the Immediate Effects of Verbal and Virtual Reality Feedback on Gait in Children with Cerebral Palsy.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Benefits of Treadmill Training for Patients with Down Syndrome: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Studying the Research-Practice Gap in Physical Therapies for Cerebral Palsy: Preliminary Outcomes Based on a Survey of Spanish Clinicians.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Review
- Effects of Dynamic Suit Orthoses on the Spatio-Temporal Gait Parameters in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The purpose of this review was to analysis the effects of treadmill training on gait function in children with cerebral palsy. Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), PubMed and Web of Science were searched. Investigating the effects of treadmill training on gait endurance, gait speed, limb support time, cadence, and step length in children with cerebral palsy. Similar outcomes were pooled by calculating the standardized mean difference. Of the eight studies, 179 participants were included. The average PEDro score was 6.25/10. The results of the sensitivity test for bias evaluation using the duval and tweedie's trim and fill method showed low publication bias. The test regarding the effect of treadmill training on overall gait function yielded a moderate effect size of 0.53, which was a statistically significant effect as its confidence interval did not include. The overall effect size of gait endurance was 0.85. The overall effect size of gait speed and limb support time were 0.52 and 0.73. The overall effect size of cadence and step length were 0.14 and 0.21, indicating a nonsignificant improvement. These findings suggested that treadmill training on cerebral palsy was effective for gait endurance, gait speed and limb support time than cadence and step length.
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