None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This study aims to find out if a sensory discrimination training method that is effective in reducing sensory impairment in adults who have had a stroke is also effective in reducing impairments in sensation for children with cerebral palsy. We hypothesise that sensory discrimination training will improve sensory discrimination for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy and result in improvements in function, activity and quality of life. Additionally we hypothesis that central changes will be evident on fMRI following intervention. We hypothesise that changes will be sustained at 6 months post intervention.
Interventions
The intervention group will receive sensory discrimination training- one hour three times a week for six weeks. Sensory discrimination training is administered one to one with an occupational therapist and involves the progression through graded stimuli from the greatest differences to finer differences in texture discrimination, object recognition and body position sense. These sub- components of training are also integrated into a client selected goal.
Sponsors
Princess Margaret Hospital
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
5 Years to 15 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Diagnosis of Cerebral palsy Hemiplegia Reduced sensation as measured by the sense_assess Aged 5-15yrs Sufficient concentration to complete assessment
Exclusion criteria
Absence of sensory deficit
Outcome results
None listed