Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy Versus Virtual Reality Training in Children With Cerebral Palsy
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: mCIMT, VR.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy. Basic parameters: 6 years — 12 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Pakistan
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Official title
Effects of Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy Versus Virtual Reality Training in Children With Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy
Overview
Children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) are characterized by motor impairments mainly lateralized to one side of the body, with greater upper limb than lower limb involvement; these impairments may further limit the daily activities and school participation of children with hemiplegic CP. For the improvement of activity limitations in hemipelagic cerebral palsy children will take 20 hemiplegic cerebral palsy children with the age of 5-16 year all participants will be randomly assign and use modified Constraint induced movement therapy and virtual reality techniques. mCIMT and Hot pack will be given to group I and unaffected hand will immobilized by a volar resting splint extending from finger tips to the proximal forearm. Use splint every day for at least 5 waking hours individualized, 18-hour program of mCIMT every other day, 3 times per week during a 4-week period. Each modified CIMT session continued for 1.5 hours will give to group I on the other hand VR and Hot pack will give to group II and 18-hour VR program, every other day, 3 times per week for 4 weeks will give Each VR session continued for 1.5 hours. Then evaluate both groups on follow up. All the data will be collected from Rising Sun Institute by using ABILHAND-KIDS questionnaire and Children's hand-use experience questionnaire. The reliability and validity of tools and mentioned. The duration of study will be 6-months. Data will be analyzed with the help of SPSS 27
Interventions
- Other mCIMT
mCIMT+ Hot pack will be applied and unaffected hand will be immobilized by a volar resting splint extending from finger tips to the proximal forearm. Use splint every day for at least 5 waking hours daily for 4 weeks and perform daily activities. Program of mCIMT every other day, 3 times per week during a 4-week period. - Other VR
VR+ Hot pack will be applied. 25 minutes of VR program, every other day, 3 times per week for 4 weeks. Each VR session continued for 10 minutes then 5 minutes rest after that again 10 minutes VR session will do.
Primary outcome measures
- CHEQ (Children's hand-use experience questionnaire) [Time frame: Baseline, 4th week and 8th week]
- ABILHAND-KIDS questionnaire [Time frame: Baseline, 4th week and 8th week]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age range between 5 to 16 years of age.
- Medical diagnosis of spastic hemiparetic CP.
- At least 20◦wrist and 10◦ active finger extension from full flexion.
- More movement deficits in 1 upper extremity (less than 2.5 on the Amount of Use scale (AOU) on the Pediatric Motor Activity Log (PMAL)).
- Muscle tone less than 3 on the Modified Ashworth Scale.
- Normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing.
- Classified level I, II, or III of the Manual Ability Classification System ( MACS) for Children with CP
Exclusion criteria
- Health problems not associated with CP.
- Seizure hemispatial neglect.
- Orthopaedic surgery on the involved upper extremity.
- Botulinum toxin therapy for the affected upper extremity within the past 6 months or within the study period.
- Balance problems
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
Pakistan · 1 center
- Rising Sun Institute — Lahore
Publications
- Roberts H, Shierk A, Clegg NJ, Baldwin D, Smith L, Yeatts P, Delgado MR. Constraint Induced Movement Therapy Camp for Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy Augmented by Use of an Exoskeleton to Play Games in Virtual Reality. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr. 2021;41(2):150-165. doi: 10.1080/01942638.2020.1812790. Epub 2020 Sep 7. PMID 32892679
- Wu J, Loprinzi PD, Ren Z. The Rehabilitative Effects of Virtual Reality Games on Balance Performance among Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Oct 28;16(21):4161. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214161. PMID 31661938
- Aran OT, Sahin S, Kose B, Agce ZB, Kayihan H. Effectiveness of the virtual reality on cognitive function of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy: a single-blind randomized controlled trial. Int J Rehabil Res. 2020 Mar;43(1):12-19. doi: 10.1097/MRR.0000000000000378. PMID 31658111
- Simon-Martinez C, Mailleux L, Ortibus E, Fehrenbach A, Sgandurra G, Cioni G, Desloovere K, Wenderoth N, Demaerel P, Sunaert S, Molenaers G, Feys H, Klingels K. Combining constraint-induced movement therapy and action-observation training in children with unilateral cerebral palsy: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Pediatr. 2018 Jul 31;18(1):250. doi: 10.1186/s12887-018-1228-2. PMID 30064396
- Harb A, Margetis K, Kishner S. Modified Ashworth Scale. 2025 Apr 4. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2026 Jan-. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554572/ PMID 32119459
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06846190 · REC/RCR/AHS/22/maria amjad