Home-based Early Intensive Hemiparesis Therapy: Engaging Nurture (HEIGHTEN)

University of Calgary

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Perinatal Stroke; Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Behavioral: Home-based Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05346887

21-1981

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to assess implementation and effectiveness of a caregiver-delivered rehabilitation intervention for infants and toddlers with cerebral palsy.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 24 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged three to 24 months (corrected, if premature)
• clinician-identified hand asymmetry
• suspected/confirmed cerebral palsy (hemiplegia or triplegia)
• willing to withhold other formal upper-limb focussed treatment during the study intervention - willing to commit to completing 18 weeks of daily home-practice and attending weekly therapy sessions.

Exclusion criteria

• participation in formal constraint induced movement therapy (CIMT) within last six months
• upper limb botulinum toxin A injections within previous six months
• brachial plexus injury
• lower motor neuron dysfunction
• upper limb congenital limb difference.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Home-based Therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home-based Therapy