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

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy; Hemiplegia

Treatments: Other: classification of hand manipulation function

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01157494

UDGEE_2010_hand_class

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical and instrumental (TC or RMN) diagnosis of child hemiplegia
• age > 5 years

Exclusion criteria

• acquired hemiplegia at the age > 3 years
• anti-spastic drug inoculations or functional surgery on the plegic UE 6 months prior to the video recordings
• severe mental retardation attested by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders IV
• pharmaco-resistant epilepsy
• behavioural disorders

Trial design

30 participants in 1 patient group

children with hemiplegia

Description:

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).

Treatment:

Other: classification of hand manipulation function