Effects of Jump Rope on Navicular Drop in Down Syndrome

ConditionDown Syndrome
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age4-15
SponsorRiphah International University

About this trial

foot posture in children with Down syndrome. The current study will be randomized control trial, data will be collected from Tanzeem ul Lissan School FSD, Children Hospital FSD and Allied Hospital FSD. The study will include 32 patients equally divided into two groups and randomly allocated. Inclusion criteria for the study will be Children between the age of 4 to 15 years with navicular drop and prone foot. Patients with visual or auditory impairment, lower limb trauma, recent Surgical Intervention on lower limb will be excluded from the study. Experimental group will perform jumping rope combined with play activities and control group will be given play activities. Data collection will be done before and after the intervention. Tools used for data collection will be Navicular Drop Test and Foot Posture Index .Data will be analyzed through SPSS version 23.00.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

age of 4 to 15 years

navicular drop

prone foot

Acute musculoskeletal injuries

Disqualifiers

visual or auditory impairment

lower limb trauma

recent Surgical Intervention on lower limb

Non- compliance and behavioral issue

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • jumping rope and play activities
  • play activities

Treatment groups

32 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups