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

Universidad San Jorge14 enrolled

Overview

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

Feasibility and longitudinal study with blinding of the evaluator and the person analyzing the data. The study have 4 procedures: 1. \- Assessment pre-intervention 2. \- Intervention: three weeks 3. \- Assessment post-intervention 4. \- Follow-up assessment (three months after intervention).

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Unilateral Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Somatosensory intensive interventionOTHER

The intensive somato-sensory intervention will take place during 3 weeks, 5 days per week, for 2 hours per day (30 hours of practice). During the week-ends, some somato-sensory written activities will be explained and handed to each family (6 hours of practice) Therapy sessions will be carried out in groups and each child will have his or her own therapist in charge of his or her treatment along the whole intervention. A daily check-list, design for that purpose, will be used by the therapist in order to register the gradually increased complexity of the activities and individual progression. The principal investigator will supervise all the interventions in order to assure their uniformity, adjusting the somato-sensory training protocol to the individual needs of each subject.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 YearsMax age: 15 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Asociación para la Investigación en la Discapacidad Motriz (AIDIMO)

Zaragoza, Spain