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Unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (USCP) leads to life-long impairment with a hemiparesis of the affected side of the body. Rehabilitation efforts combine evidence based methods such as constrained induced movement therapy (CIMT) or hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy (HABIT) as well as training in daily life activities and psychological support in order to improve participation. It has been tried to enhance hand motor function trainings with non-invasive brain stimulation. However, evidence of this promising approach is limited. This might be due to a non-consideration of the individually different types of cortico-spinal projections to the paretic hand that demonstrated to be of highly relevant for the therapy of these children. Approximately one third of such patients control their paretic hands via crossed projections from the affected hemisphere (CONTRA), while one third uses ipsilateral projections from the contralesional hemisphere (IPSI). This study aims - for the first time - to enhance the effects of the training by priming the primary motor cortex (M1) of the paretic hand with a newly established high frequency quadri-pulse theta burst stimulation (qTBS) in a randomized, patient and evaluator blind, sham-controlled approach, for the first time taking the individual type of cortico-spinal reorganization (CONTRA vs IPSI) into account. This promising and neurophysiologically motivated approach is likely to ameliorate hand function in children with USCP.


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NCT number NCT05165472
Study type Interventional
Source Technical University of Munich
Contact Volker Mall, Prof.
Phone +49 (0)89 71009-233
Email volker.mall@kbo.de
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date July 1, 2022
Completion date March 31, 2026

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