NCT01157494

Validity of Manipulation Taxonomy of Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy (CP) Forms

Validity of Manipulation Taxonomy of Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy Forms Proposed by Ferrari A et.al.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In recent years Ferrari et al. proposed a new classification of manipulation in children with spastic hemiplegia which describes five different classes by analyzing and integrating the kinematic patterns of the hand and its functional use. The investigators believe that this classification provides the clinician with clinically meaningful information, by identifying the useful strategies spontaneously adopted by the children during manipulation tasks. The aim of this study is to determine the criterion validity of the new classification of the pattern of manipulation in children with spastic hemiplegia by correlating hand manipulation classes with both the scores of the Assisting Hand Assessment and the scores of the Melbourne Assessment of Unilateral Upper Limb Function.

Conditions

• Hemiplegia
• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	classification of hand manipulation function	To determine the criterion validity of the classification of the pattern of manipulation proposed by Ferrari et al. we correlated hand manipulation classes with both the scores of the two standard criteria chosen (AHA and Melbourne Assessment).

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-07-01
• First posted: 2010-07-07
• Last updated: 2010-07-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy