Effectiveness of Routine Physical Therapy With Intensive Bimanual Training in Cerebral Palsy Children

Effectiveness of Routine Physical Therapy With or Without Home Based Intensive Bimanual Training on Clinical Outcomes in Cerebral Palsy Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04755556

Enrollment

Registered

2021-02-16

Start date

2020-03-06

Completion date

2020-12-06

Last updated

2021-02-16

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Conditions

Cerebral Palsy

Keywords

Cerebral Palsy, Bimanual Training

Brief summary

Effectiveness of Routine Physical Therapy With or Without Home Based Intensive Bimanual Training on Clinical Outcomes in Cerebral Palsy Children

Detailed description

Cerebral Palsy is one of the most common issue seen in pediatric rehabilitation .Home based intensive Bimanual training has proven to be one of the most effective rehabilitation training for improving motor. The study determines the effectiveness of routine physical therapy with or without home-based intensive bimanual training on coordination of hands and daily activities of daily living. A nine months randomized control trial was comprised of thirty children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy aged between 4 to 7 years. One group received routine physical therapy and the other group received a goal specific bimanual training from their parents in their home setting for 3.5 hours per week for 6 weeks according to a modified set up. Follow up sessions were done at 6th week. Activities of daily living and coordination were measured using Pediatric motor log activity scale and ABILHAND respectively.

Interventions

OTHERhome based intensive bimanual training

Home Based Intensive Bimanual Training with Routine Physical Therapy bimanual training includes. functional activities play with ball, make a dough, make beads, make blocks .Routine Physical Therapy includes stretching spastic muscles, EMS, normalizing muscle tone.

OTHERRoutine Physical Therapy

Routine physical Therapy includes stretching spastic muscles, EMS, normalizing muscle tone.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Intervention model description

Home Based Intensive Bimanual training

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

4 Years to 7 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Spastic CP children * Both male and female * Age 4-7 years * Actively grasp of objects from table i.e., stuff toys, making blocks * One to one attention

Exclusion criteria

* Cognitive delays preventing the child from following two-step instructions * Health diagnoses unassociated with USCP. * Parents unable to commit to entire duration of intervention. * Visual difficulties preventing performance of intervention tasks.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
ABILHAND	6th week	hand coordination

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pediatric Motor Log Activity Scale	6th week	Activity of Daily Living

Countries

Pakistan

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026