Upper Limb Intensive Therapies in Babies With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy.
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
mCIMT and BIT are therapies applied in children with hemiplegia which have a great evidence, but not in a early age. This research has the objective to know the effects of this therapies in infants diagnosed of infantile hemiplegia from 9 to 18 months applying 50 hours of dose for both interventions during 10 weeks, executing them at home by familes.
Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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N/A |
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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Experimental: infant cimt
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Other: Infant BIT
Not use of unaffected hand containment. Both hand are use to improve the bimanual coordination
Other: Infant CIMT/BIT
Use unaffected hand containment in part of the intervention and then, both hands in bimanual activities without containment.
Other: Conventional therapy
Following the usual therapy in the baby.
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Active Comparator: Infant BIT
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Other: Infant CIMT/BIT
Use unaffected hand containment in part of the intervention and then, both hands in bimanual activities without containment.
Other: Conventional therapy
Following the usual therapy in the baby.
Other: infant cimt
use of unaffected hand containment to improve the use of affected hand with unimanual activities
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Active Comparator: Infant CIMT/BIT
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Other: Infant BIT
Not use of unaffected hand containment. Both hand are use to improve the bimanual coordination
Other: Conventional therapy
Following the usual therapy in the baby.
Other: infant cimt
use of unaffected hand containment to improve the use of affected hand with unimanual activities
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Active Comparator: Conventional Therapy
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Other: Infant BIT
Not use of unaffected hand containment. Both hand are use to improve the bimanual coordination
Other: Infant CIMT/BIT
Use unaffected hand containment in part of the intervention and then, both hands in bimanual activities without containment.
Other: infant cimt
use of unaffected hand containment to improve the use of affected hand with unimanual activities
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- mini Assisting Hand Assesment [10 weeks]
Bimanual functional performance Assessment in children with hemiplegia from 8 to 18 months.
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Satisfaction questionnaire for familes [10 weeks]
Descriptive questionnaire to obtain the adherence and satisfaction from families in this therapies.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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Infantile hemiplegia
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Age from 9 months to 18 months.
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No use of the affected upper limb
Exclusion Criteria:
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Associated pathologies
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Epilepsy no controlled with medicins
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No collaborated families
Contacts and Locations
Locations
Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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1 | Hemiweb | Barcelona | Spain |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- CEU San Pablo University
Investigators
None specified.Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- infant CIMT/BIT