ProtocolFrontiers in rehabilitation sciences2025

Use of TDCS with proprioceptive exercises to improve gait and balance in visually impaired children and preadolescents: a protocol for randomized clinical trial study.

Roberta Carneiro de Toledo, Rodolfo Borges Parreira, Deborah Carvalho da Silva Cardoso, Natália de Almeida Carvalho Duarte, Jamile Benite Palma Lopes, Lorraine Barbosa Cordeiro, Daniela Rosana Pedro Fonseca, Iranse Oliveira Silva, Renata Calhes Franco, Karla Cristina Naves de Carvalho, Andrei Machado Viegas da Trindade, Samara Lamounier Santana Parreira, Manuela Galli, Venorica Cimolin, Claudia Santos Oliveira

PMID 40538416

WHAT IT FOUND

No results are available.

This paper outlines the plan for a future trial testing tDCS and balance exercises in blind children, but no patients were treated and no outcomes were measured.

What this paper is

This is a study protocol for a randomized clinical trial that has not yet been conducted or reported results. It describes the planned methodology for testing transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with proprioceptive exercises in visually impaired children, but it contains no data, outcomes, or findings to report. There is nothing here to change clinical practice.

The easy way to misread this

Do not assume this treatment is proven or safe for use in practice. This document only describes what researchers intend to do in a future study; it reports no evidence that tDCS combined with proprioceptive exercises improves gait or balance in children with visual impairment.

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    Roberta Carneiro de Toledo, Rodolfo Borges Parreira, Deborah Carvalho da Silva Cardoso, et al. Use of TDCS with proprioceptive exercises to improve gait and balance in visually impaired children and preadolescents: a protocol for randomized clinical trial study. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences. 2025.

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