Including a Lower-Extremity Component during Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Training does not Attenuate Improvements of the Upper Extremities: A Retrospective Study of Randomized Trials

Including a Lower-Extremity Component during Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Training does not Attenuate Improvements of the Upper Extremities: A Retrospective Study of Randomized Trials

Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy (HABIT) promotes hand function using intensive practice of bimanual functional and play tasks. This intervention has shown to be efficacious to improve upper-extremity (UE) function in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (USCP). In addition to UE funct...

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Main Authors: Geoffroy Saussez, Marina B. Brandão, Andrew M. Gordon, Yannick Bleyenheuft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
cerebral palsy
hemiplegia
intensive intervention
upper extremity
lower extremity
bimanual training
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2017.00495/full

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