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Mirror Therapy and Children with Hemiplegia by Your Therapy Source Posted Fri 18 Mar 2011 9:16am Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology published research on mirror therapy in children with hemiplegia. Mirror therapy involves the use of a mirror to provide the illusion that the paretic arm is functional. This type of therapy has been used with adults who have had a stroke. For this pilot study, 15 children with hemiplegia were randomly Read on »
Grip in Children with Congential Hemiplegia by Your Therapy Source Posted Tue 04 May 2010 6:22am Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair published research comparing predictive and reactive control of grip force in children with congenital hemiplegia. The precision grip of 12 children (ages 10-16 years) with hemiplegia were compared to a control group in two different conditions - predictive and reactive. For the predictive control, the child Read on »
Bracing and Hemiplegia by Your Therapy Source Posted Wed 16 Mar 2011 9:03pm Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology published research on the use of a wrist and thumb brace on bimanual activities in children with hemiplegia cerebral palsy. Twenty five children with spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy (with mild to moderate hand deformity) performed bimanual activities wearing a brace and not wearing a brace Read on »
Bimanual Versus Constraint Therapy in Hemiplegia by Your Therapy Source Posted Fri 08 Jul 2011 8:25am Research was conducted comparing two groups of children ranging from 3.5 to 10 years old (42 in total) with hemiplegia. The children were randomly assigned to receive 90 hours of constraint induced movement therapy (CIMT) or 90 hours of bimanual training (HABIT). Following the training, both the CIMT and HABIT resulted in improved hand function Read on »
Use of Thumb Splint in Children with Hemiplegia by Your Therapy Source Posted Mon 12 Dec 2011 9:58am Clinical Rehabilitation published research on the functional abilities of 7 children (ages 2-7) with unilateral cerebral palsy who used a neoprene thumb opponens splint (McKie splint). The children were followed for 4 months - about one month baseline, 2 months intervention and one month follow up. Goal attainment scaling and visual analog scal ... Read on »
Everyday Hero by Sarah Patient Expert Posted Thu 15 Jan 2009 11:47pm Since Violet was diagnosed with Hemiplegia Cerebral Palsy, I have had the pleasure of meeting some lovely ladies on the site Essential Baby - Cerebral Palsy Thread, and they have provided and continue to, offer much support and advice for me in this 'new world' of CP. One of these lovely ladies, Dianne has a gorgeous boy Satria who lives Read on »
Reports, Reports and more Reports! by Sarah Patient Expert Posted Mon 24 May 2010 11:06pm spastic hemiplegia, that saying right dystonic spastic hemiplegia isn't the same as Cerebral Palsy and that I now need to get more proof that she has been diagnosed with Cerebral... Disability Clinic at Westmead and ask them to correct this they are going to laugh, as everyone knows Hemiplegia is a form of Cerebral Palsy! Well, I did ring them and they did Read on »
Another Therapy by Sarah Patient Expert Posted Thu 15 Jan 2009 11:47pm We now have a more medical term for Violet's right hand side not moving as much as her left. It's called Hemiplegia. Hemiplegia is a form of Spastic Cerebral Palsy which refers to one arm and leg on either the right or left side of the body being affected. Violet's (OT) Occupational Therapist has decided to try what's called Constraint-Induced Read on »
Swimming Evaulation by Sarah Patient Expert Posted Thu 15 Jan 2009 11:47pm A few months ago I had the opportunity of meeting a young guy Sean at a parent information group @ The Spastic Centre, he also has Hemiplegia CP. Was very encouraging to hear him have such a positive outlook on life...not to mention a wicked sense of humour. While he was there he told us he was an Instructor for the Learn to Swim for the disabled Read on »
Evidence Based Guidelines for Pediatric OT and PT by Your Therapy Source Posted Mon 04 Apr 2011 8:36am with hemiplegia, partial body weight supported treadmill training, wheelchair delivery and sensory processing deficits. This is a gold mine of resources to guide your practice and offer Read on »