Mirror Therapy and Children with Hemiplegia
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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
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Grip in Children with Congential Hemiplegia
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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
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Bracing and Hemiplegia
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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
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Bimanual Versus Constraint Therapy in Hemiplegia
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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
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Use of Thumb Splint in Children with Hemiplegia
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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 ...
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Everyday Hero
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SarahPosted
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
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Reports, Reports and more Reports!
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SarahPosted
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
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Another Therapy
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SarahPosted
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
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Swimming Evaulation
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SarahPosted
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
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