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Rehabilitation strategies to improve upper limb movement quality in children with cerebral palsy

Children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) are extremely heterogeneous in terms of etiology and clinical features. Despite the efforts of many studies in examining rehabilitation strategies to improve upper limb (UL) function in children with CP the confidence in the validity of these studies’ evidence is still moderate to low. The primary objective of this prospective single subject research design study was to determine the effect of two rehabilitation strategies in UL movement quality: arm constraint and trunk restraint, in the context of a modified constraint induced intervention (mCIT) and task-oriented intervention, respectively. The secondary objective was to identify the most reliable kinematic variables that could be used in clinical trials to detect change in UL movement quality.

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