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Comparison of Constraint Induced Movement Therapy and Mirror Therapy

NCT06294444 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2024-05-07

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Summary

Hemiplegia in infants and children is a type of Cerebral Palsy that results from damage to the part (hemisphere) of the brain that controls muscle movements. This damage may occur before, during or shortly after birth. The term hemiplegia means that the paralysis is on one vertical half of the body. The aim of this study will be the to know the effect of mCIMT with and without mirror therapy on upper limb function in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. A randomized control trial will be conducted at Sheikh Zayed Hospital, RYK through convenience sampling technique on 30 patients which will be allocated through simple random sampling through sealed opaque enveloped into group A and group B. Group A will be treated with mCIMT and Group B will be treated with mCIMT and mirror therapy. Outcome measure will be conducted through pain and disability questionnaire after 6 weeks. Data will be analyzed using SPSS software version 21. After assessing normality of data by Shapiro - wilk test, it will be decided either parametric or non-parametric test will be used within a group or between two groups. mCIMT with and without mirror therapy will be applied in patients with hemiplegic cerebral palsy to see the effect on upper limb function.

Conditions

  • Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

OTHER

Constraint Induced Movement Therapy

Group A: This group patients will be treated with mCIMT, the forced use of the affected arm by restraining the unaffected arm, with a sling or a hand splint, during dedicated exercise sections or usual ADLs (90% of waking hours).Massed practice (eight hours of exercise) of the affected arm through a shaping method, where shaping involves a commonly operant conditioning method in which a behavioural objective (in this case 'movement') is approached in small steps of progressively increasing difficulty. The participant is rewarded with enthusiastic approval for improvement, but never blamed or punished for failure. This therapy will be given 4hrs daily for 6 weeks. The results will be based upon pre and post evaluation.

OTHER

Mirror therapy

Group B: These patients will be treated with mCIMT and mirror therapy. Children were taught repetitive symmetrical upper limbs exercises: with modelling-clay in each hand to elicit bilateral thumb-finger pinch and grasping. They performed these during a 15-minute daily routine at home with mCIMT (forced use of arm and massed practice 4hrs of exercise of affected arm). This combination of therapy will be given for 6 weeks. The results will be seen through pre and post evaluation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Riphah International University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hurriya Sehar, MS* · Riphah International University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-12-01
Primary Completion
2024-03-15
Completion
2024-03-15

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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