Intensive Therapies to Improve Manipulation in Young Children With Hemiparesis

University of Seville

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bimanual Intensive Therapy; Constraint Induced Movement Therapy; Family; Infantile Hemiplegia

Treatments: Procedure: INFANT CIMT/BIT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06191588

USeville23

Details and patient eligibility

About

mCIMT and BIT are therapies applied in children with hemiplegia which have a great evidence, but not in a early age. This research has the objective to know the effects of this therapies in infants diagnosed of infantile hemiplegia from 9 to 18 months applying 50 hours of dose for both interventions during 10 weeks, executing them at home by families.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 18 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infantile hemiplegia
• Age from 9 months to 18 months.
• No use of the affected upper limb

Exclusion criteria

• Associated pathologies
• Epilepsy no controlled with drugs
• No collaborated families

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10 participants in 4 patient groups

infant cimt

Experimental group

Description:

Other: Infant BIT Not use of unaffected hand containment. Both hand are use to improve the bimanual coordination Other: Infant CIMT/BIT Use unaffected hand containment in part of the intervention and then, both hands in bimanual activities without containment. Other: Conventional therapy Following the usual therapy in the baby.

Treatment:

Procedure: INFANT CIMT/BIT

Infant BIT

Active Comparator group

Description:

Other: Infant CIMT/BIT Use unaffected hand containment in part of the intervention and then, both hands in bimanual activities without containment. Other: Conventional therapy Following the usual therapy in the baby. Other: infant cimt use of unaffected hand containment to improve the use of affected hand with unimanual activities

Treatment:

Procedure: INFANT CIMT/BIT

Infant CIMT/BIT

Active Comparator group

Description:

Other: Infant CIMT/BIT Use unaffected hand containment in part of the intervention and then, both hands in bimanual activities without containment. Other: Conventional therapy Following the usual therapy in the baby. Other: infant cimt use of unaffected hand containment to improve the use of affected hand with unimanual activities

Treatment:

Procedure: INFANT CIMT/BIT

Conventional Therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Other: Infant BIT Not use of unaffected hand containment. Both hand are use to improve the bimanual coordination Other: Infant CIMT/BIT Use unaffected hand containment in part of the intervention and then, both hands in bimanual activities without containment. Other: infant cimt use of unaffected hand containment to improve the use of affected hand with unimanual activities

Treatment:

Procedure: INFANT CIMT/BIT