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This article details an 8-week protocol that combines a modified constraint-induced movement therapy protocol combined with task-specific bimanual training.
For activities that required two hands, the adolescents were asked to cooperate with each other. Results showed that all participants had improved dexterity, coordination, precision and manipulative abilities at the end of camp. These improvements were maintained 5 months post camp cessation.
This handbook provides an integrative history about CIMT that includes its major research findings, theoretical underpinnings, practical guidelines for practitioners and health care providers, and peer-reviewed information for students preparing to be pediatric practitioners and educators.
Intervention and program guidelines for creating and/or maintaining intensive upper extremity programs.
Positive evidence was found for improved hand use after CIMT, particularly from the less-rigorous study designs.
A randomized controlled trial of 18 children with hemiplegia did not reveal any statistically significant results on the QUEST-Dissociated Movement subscale. However a trend in favor of the CIMT group was demonstrated.
this article also discusses the therapists’ role in ensuring minimal frustration levels experienced by clients thus maximizing the benefits of CIMT program by offering compensations and adaptations.
The authors conclude that both interventions lead to increase in occupational performance, however, to truly address participation, an intervention addressing environmental, attitudinal and child-related factors would need to be developed.
All participants demonstrated a trend for positive change in upper limb function after intervention. This study also demonstrates that most positive results were yielded with intensive therapy than as compared to traditional therapy delivery.
All participants demonstrated a trend for positive change in upper limb function after intervention. This study also demonstrates that most positive results were yielded with intensive therapy than as compared to traditional therapy delivery.
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital focused on improving the lives of kids with disabilities. Their state-of-the-art building has been recognized by the International Academy for Design and Health as “an inspirational building which speaks to a child’s right to participate in our society.”
Niagara Children’s Centre is recognized throughout the Niagara Region as the provider of rehabilitation and support services to children and youth with physical, developmental and communicative delays and disabilities.