Hsieh-ching Chen1, Chia-ling Chen2, Lin-ju Kang3, Ching-yi Wu4, Fei-chuan Chen5, Wei-hsien Hong6. 1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei. 2. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou; Graduate Institute of Early Intervention, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan. Electronic address: clingchen@gmail.com. 3. Graduate Institute of Early Intervention, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan. 4. Department of Occupational Therapy and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, and Healthy Ageing Research Center at Chang Gung University, Taoyuan. 5. Graduate Institute of Early Intervention, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan; Department of Rehabilitation, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei. 6. Department of Sports Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the long-term effects of home-based constraint induced therapy (CIT) on motor control underlying functional change in children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial. SETTING: Home based. PARTICIPANTS: Children with unilateral CP (N=45; aged 6-12 y) were randomly assigned to receive home-based CIT (n=23) or traditional rehabilitation (TR) (n=22). INTERVENTIONS: Both groups received a 4-week therapist-based intervention at home. The home-based CIT involved intensive functional training of the more affected upper extremity during which the less affected one was restrained. The TR involved functional unimanual and bimanual training. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: All children underwent kinematic and clinical assessments at baseline, 4 weeks (posttreatment), and 3 and 6 months (follow-up). The reach-to-grasp kinematics were reaction time (RT), normalized movement time, normalized movement unit, peak velocity (PV), maximum grip aperture (MGA), and percentage of movement where MGA occurs. The clinical measures were the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, Second Edition (PDMS-2), Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP), and Functional Independence Measure for children (WeeFIM). RESULTS: The home-based CIT group showed a shorter RT (P<.05) and normalized movement time (P<.01), smaller MGA (P=.006), and fewer normalized movement units (P=.014) in the reach-to-grasp movements at posttreatment and follow-up than the TR group. The home-based CIT group improved more on the PDMS-2 (P<.001) and WeeFIM (P<.01) in all posttreatment tests and on the BOTMP (P<.01) at follow-up than the TR group. CONCLUSIONS: The home-based CIT induced better spatial and temporal efficiency (smoother movement, more efficient grasping, better movement preplanning and execution) for functional improvement up to 6 months after treatment than TR.
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the long-term effects of home-based constraint induced therapy (CIT) on motor control underlying functional change in children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial. SETTING: Home based. PARTICIPANTS: Children with unilateral CP (N=45; aged 6-12 y) were randomly assigned to receive home-based CIT (n=23) or traditional rehabilitation (TR) (n=22). INTERVENTIONS: Both groups received a 4-week therapist-based intervention at home. The home-based CIT involved intensive functional training of the more affected upper extremity during which the less affected one was restrained. The TR involved functional unimanual and bimanual training. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: All children underwent kinematic and clinical assessments at baseline, 4 weeks (posttreatment), and 3 and 6 months (follow-up). The reach-to-grasp kinematics were reaction time (RT), normalized movement time, normalized movement unit, peak velocity (PV), maximum grip aperture (MGA), and percentage of movement where MGA occurs. The clinical measures were the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, Second Edition (PDMS-2), Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP), and Functional Independence Measure for children (WeeFIM). RESULTS: The home-based CIT group showed a shorter RT (P<.05) and normalized movement time (P<.01), smaller MGA (P=.006), and fewer normalized movement units (P=.014) in the reach-to-grasp movements at posttreatment and follow-up than the TR group. The home-based CIT group improved more on the PDMS-2 (P<.001) and WeeFIM (P<.01) in all posttreatment tests and on the BOTMP (P<.01) at follow-up than the TR group. CONCLUSIONS: The home-based CIT induced better spatial and temporal efficiency (smoother movement, more efficient grasping, better movement preplanning and execution) for functional improvement up to 6 months after treatment than TR.
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