Clinical trial NCT03546712: Estimating Error in Locating Touch Sensation on Forearm in Healthy Middle School Going Children
Official title: Standard References Norms for Tactile Localization Acuity in Upper Limb Among the Asymptomatic Middle School Children: A Normative Research
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Healthy
Keywords: Acuity
children
forearm
perception
touch location
Lead sponsor: Maharishi Markendeswar University (Deemed to be University)
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-06-06
Enrollment: 365
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 13
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Healthy school going children age between eight and thirteen years without any neurological disease. healthy school children is able to follow commands and able to understand.

Brief summary: Tactile localization stimuli are fundamental in forearm to the somatosensory perception.Tactile localization reverse the touch internal organization of the forearm and in the normal development of children.It is helpful in quick estimation of tactile localization among the children in the age group, eight to thirteen years.Study design is cross-sectional study it is conducted from September 2017 to April 2019 and use stratified random sampling. subject recruitment is healthy school going children of age group between eight and thirteen year will be included in this study.The procedure will be explained to the children's before starting the test. Ascent will be obtained from the participant. Anthropometrics will be measured before beginning the procedure. The acuity of TL will be determined by the point-to-point tactile localization (PPTL) technique. For performing PPTL, the child will be seated and the examiner will locate a point on the participants forearm of the blinded child by a black pen marker. Then the child will be asked to relocate the point with the help of red pen marker in blindfolded state. The distance between black point and red point (in cm) will be noted this distance will be measure by measuring tape as the acuity of tactile localization. Mean of three readings will be used for estimating the normative reference value of tactile localization by PPTL technique.

Detailed description: For performing Point to Point Tactile Localization, the child will be seated and the examiner will locate a point on the forearm of the blinded child by a black marker pen. Then the child will be asked to relocate the point with the help of red marked in blindfolded state. The distance between black point and red point (in cm) will be noted as the acuity of tactile localization. 15 areas in upper limb will be selected and PPTL will be performed on them. The fifteen areas are, phalanges of the palmer area of the little finger (palm 1), phalanx of the middle finger of the Palmer area (palm 2), phalanx of the thumb area of palm (palm 3), first dorsal interosseous (palm 4), mid last part of the forearm (forearm 1), middle of the medial forearm (forearm 2), medial side of the forearm (forearm 3), the lower portion of the arm (arm 1), middle posterior of arm (arm 2), lateral side of upper arm (arm 3), lower portion of medial arm (arm 4), middle portion of arm (arm 5), the median upper arm (arm 6), lower side arm (arm 7), and upper side of arm (arm 8). Mean of three readings will be used for estimating the normative reference value of tactile localization by PPTL technique.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria: healthy school going children, Male and female, Age between eight-13 years, Able to understand commands, Obey simple comments

Exclusion Criteria: neurological diseases, disease of the skin, skin rashes, Non cooperative child, other medical conditions that prevent the from participating in the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: distance in millimeter
timeFrame: 3 times
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ambala
country: India
facility: Asir John Samuel
state: Haryana
city: Ambala
country: India
facility: Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
state: Haryana
Study officials:
affiliation: Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
name: Krati Omar, BPT, (MPT)
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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