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

NCT01157494 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2010-07-07

No results posted yet for this study

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

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).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Azienda USL Reggio Emilia - IRCCS

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Adriano Ferrari, MD · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Hospital Santa Maria Nuova

  • Giulia Borelli, PT · Azienda USL Reggio Emilia

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-04-30
Primary Completion
2010-06-30
Completion
2010-07-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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