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Constraint-Based Therapy to Improve Motor Function in Children With Cerebral Palsy

NCT00061139 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2005-06-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Pediatric Constraint-Induced (CI) Movement therapy is a rehabilitation program designed to improve motor function in children with partial paralysis. Children with cerebral palsy may have one arm that has significantly greater function (good arm) than the other (bad arm). Restricting the use of the good arm may improve the use of the bad arm. In pediatric CI therapy, the good arm is put in a sling to force increased use of the bad arm. The bad arm is also trained each day for several weeks. This study will test the ability of pediatric CI therapy to improve motor function in children with cerebral palsy.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Motor Deficits

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Pediatric Constraint-Induced Movement therapy

BEHAVIORAL

Conventional pediatric motor rehabilitation therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Edward Taub, PhD · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
6 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-09-30
Completion
2006-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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