Upper extremity constraint-induced movement therapy in infantile hemiplegia

摘要

Infantile hemiplegia is one of the clinical forms of cerebral palsy that refers to impaired motor function of one half of the body owing to contralateral brain damage due to prenatal, perinatal and postnatal causes amongst which vascular lesion is the most common causative factor. We report here the effects of constraint-induced movement therapy in a five-year-old female child with infantile hemiplegia on improvement of upper extremity motor skills.Keywords: Constraint-induced movement therapy, infantile hemiplegia, shaping