View clinical trials related to Infantile Hemiplegia.
Filter by:mCIMT and BIT are therapies applied in children with hemiplegia which have a great evidence, but not in a early age. This research has the objective to know the effects of this therapies in infants diagnosed of infantile hemiplegia from 9 to 18 months applying 50 hours of dose for both interventions during 10 weeks, executing them at home by families.
Application of Transcranial Direct Current or placebo combined with Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) and bimanual intensive therapy (BIT) in infantile hemiplegia (4-8 years). Before, after the treatment and 3 months after the treatment, the functionality of the affected upper limb will be assessed: Spontaneous use, alignment of the affected segment in movement, action of grasping and releasing an object with the wrist in a neutral position, extension and flexion and quality of life. CIMT will last 3 hours per day in a period of two weeks (10 days from M-F), and the transcranial direct current or placebo will be combined during the first 20 minutes of it. In addition, 45 minutes of BIT will be performed during the third week (3 days). The total time of the therapy will be 33 hours and 45 minutes. CIMT and BIT will have a playful and group performance model.
Infantile hemiplegia due to brain injury is associated with poor attention. Left-sided infantile hemiplegia affects the learning and acquisition of new skills. This study is aiming to improve the Selective visual attention (SVA) through transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in children with Left-sided infantile hemiplegia .
Cerebral palsy is the most frequent motor deficiency in children. Among other, it can leads to spastic diplegia or hemiplegia. Walking abilities is an important skill to the families' point of view in term of independence in curent life. Improving the walking parameters has been the main objective in several studies of rehabilitation. The G-EO system is a last generation robot assisting gait training that can adjust cadence, walk lengh, ankle and hip angles and other walking parameters to movement captation. Its superiority in terms of walking abilities has been demonstrated in adults with stroke sequelae. Only one study was realized in pediatric patients with spastic diplegia with promising results. The investigators hypothesize that intensive robot-assited gait training using the G-EO system in hemiplegic children can improve their walking abilities.
This is a comparative study where two protocols of intensive therapies will be applied to study the improvements in the functional performance of the affected upper limb of children with hemiparesis and check whether to increase their quality of life.