Purpose of the study: To evaluate effect of core stability exercises program on upper limb reaching in children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy.
Thirty spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsied children of both sexes will be selected from General hospitals and private centers in El-Minia government with the following criteria: 1. The age of the selected children ranged from 3 To 6 years old. 2. Degree of spasticity is ranging from 1 to 1+, according to modified Ashworth scale 3. Children in study group will be treated using core stability exercises program in addition to traditional program and children in the control group will be treated using traditional physical therapy program. 4. Trunk control measurement scale and pediatric reach test will be used to evaluate each child individually before and after 6 successive weeks of treatment, three times per week.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
Strengthening to the trunk muscles
Neurodevelopmental training excercises
Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Pediatric reach test
Reaching score
Time frame: assessment after 6 weeks of intervention
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