Impact of Somatosensory Intensive Intervention on Motor Performance in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy

Universidad San Jorge

Status

Completed

Conditions

Unilateral Cerebral Palsy

Treatments

Other: Somatosensory intensive intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04235088

UCP Somatosensory intervention

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of an intensive somatosensory intervention in the upper limb of children with hemiparesis regarding structure, function, activity and participation

Hypothesis:

Intensive somatosensory activity based intervention is effective in upper limb and hand ability in children with hemiparesis, specially regarding activity and participation

Full description

Feasibility and longitudinal study with blinding of the evaluator and the person analyzing the data. The study have 4 procedures:

- Assessment pre-intervention
- Intervention: three weeks
- Assessment post-intervention
- Follow-up assessment (three months after intervention).

Enrollment

14 patients

Sex

All

Ages

6 to 15 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosis of unilateral cerebral palsy
Manual Ability Classification System (MACS): levels I, II y III.
Gender: male and female
Age: 6 to 15 years old

Exclusion criteria

Existence of a moderate or severe cognitive impairment, which could interfere with the comprehension of the tester cues
Botulinum toxic infiltration 4 months before the date of the pre-intervention assessment or during intervention or during the 3 months after the final intervention
To have suffered any injury such as fractures and/or contusions in the upper limb in the last 12 months
Orthopedic intervention in the 6 months preceding the study or during the study