An interventional study of Clinical tests and motor control evaluation using Inertial Measurement Units in Genu Varum, Genu Valgus and Flat Feet, sponsored by Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. Completed at 1 site in Italy. Open to participants aged 6 Years to 17 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-12-23.
Sponsored by Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic
While various complex pathologies of the developmental age, such as Infantile Cerebral Palsy or Neuromuscular Diseases, are notoriously considered causes of alteration of locomotor development, it is scarcely known whether conditions much more frequent in the pediatric population, the so-called "Paramorphisms or Dysmorphisms", may be associated with more or less noticeable changes in locomotor development.
On a few studies, flat feet and hyperlaxity has been correlated with a motor control delay or poorer motor performance, based on complex clinical tests or on stereophotogrammetry movement analysis.
Although promising, these preliminary studies, in addition to not providing information on the possible influence of other paramorphisms, such as varus and valgus of the knees, do not provide conclusive indications.
The aim of this study is to investigate, through clinical tests and wearable inertial units, the motor control of a pediatric population affected by Paramorphisms or Dysmorphisms and to compare them with a population of healthy controls, matched by age, taken from the recently developed control data set from Bisi and Stagni.
18 studies on the registry are indexed under Genu Varum; 8 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 151 is above the median of 60 across 12 interventional studies indexed under Genu Varum.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Only one arm of patients assessed for motor competence and balance without controls
Diagnostic Test: Clinical tests and motor control evaluation using Inertial Measurement Units
Each patient is evaluated using clinical tests (Movement ABC2, Test of Motor Competence), a screening questionnaire (DCD-Q), and wearable Inertial Measurement Units to assess balance and motor control during a Natural Walking and Tandem Walking test.
Evaluation and measurement of balance
Evaluation of balance using clinical tests ( Movement ABC2).
Time frame: Baseline
Evaluation and measurement motor competence
Evaluation of motor competence using clinical tests (Test of Motor Competence, ).
Time frame: Baseline
Measurement of balance
Measurement of balance assessing synchronicity from data obtained with Inertial Measurement Units.
Time frame: Baseline
Measurement of motor competence
Measurement motor competence assessing automaticity from data obtained with Inertial Measurement Units.
Time frame: Baseline
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