Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy and Action Observation Training in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

44

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 1, 2014

Primary Completion Date

February 28, 2018

Study Completion Date

February 28, 2018

Conditions
Cerebral Palsy
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Constraint-induced movement therapy

In a 2-week day camp model children receive constraint- induced movement therapy for six hours a day, for 9 out of 11 consecutive days. All children wear a tailor made hand splint on the unaffected upper limb for 6 hours per day while performing unimanual exercises individually or in a group based on shaping and repetitive practice.

BEHAVIORAL

Action observation training

Action observation training consists of 15 sessions of 1 hour. Children watch 3 minute video clips of unimanual goal-directed actions followed by 3 minutes of execution of the actions.

BEHAVIORAL

Placebo observation training

Placebo observation training consists of 15 sessions of 1 hour. Children perform the same actions as the AOT training after watching computer games without biological movements.

Trial Locations (1)

3000

KU Leuven, Leuven

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

OTHER

collaborator

University of Pisa

OTHER

lead

KU Leuven

OTHER

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