NCT03465046

Intensive Therapies in Children With Hemiplegia

Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy and Bimanual Intensive Therapy in Children With Hemiplegia. Comparative Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Salamanca · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a comparative study where two protocols of intensive therapies will be applied to study the improvements in the functional performance of the affected upper limb of children with hemiparesis and check whether to increase their quality of life.

Detailed description

the intervention protocols combine different doses of intensive therapy, being 80 hours of modified constraint induced movement therapy followed by 20 hours for protocol 1 and protocol 2 would be the application of protocol 1 inverted, with this, the investigators want to compare how both protocols interfere in the function of the affected upper limb of children with different levels of bimanual functional performance.

Conditions

• Infantile Hemiplegia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
COMBINATION_PRODUCT	intensive therapies(CIMT/BIT): protocol 1 or protocol 2	The therapies applied in both protocols are intensive therapies that allow the execution of unimanual activities or bimanual activities with the affected upper limb with different doses. the protocols were carried out at home through the family

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-15
• Primary completion: 2018-11-25
• Completion: 2019-01-30
• First posted: 2018-03-14
• Last updated: 2020-11-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain