Effect of mirror therapy in upper limb of young individuals with cerebral palsy and cerebral vascular accident
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- Conditions
- Cerebral Palsy and Cerebral Vascular AccidentC10.597.636C10.228.140.300.775
- Registration Number
- RBR-27rmv3
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- data analysis completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Dysfunctional diagnosis of hemiparesis with brachial predominance;
Medical diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy or Cerebral Vascular Accident, of prenatal or perinatal etiology;
Age between 15 and 25 years;
Normal cognitive function.
Exclusion Criteria
Visual and/or hearing impairment;
Mental deficiency;
Muscular contractions that unable the execution of the tests;
Muscle tone of affected upper limb equal to or greater than 3 in the Ashworth Scale;
Botulinum toxin injections and/or surgery during the previous 6 months;
Subjects who do not accomplished 25% or more of the intervention sessions.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improvement in the aspects evaluated by Fugl-Meyer Scale (motor function of the affected upper limb) and the Functional Independence Measure (functional ability in the activities of daily living), after 8 weeks of intervention with the mirror therapy.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improvement the correlation between the two scales, evaluated by before and after the tratament evaluation of the Pearson correlation test.<br>