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Article: Pediatric constraint-induced movement therapy for a young child with cerebral palsy: two episodes of care.(Case Report)
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- Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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The call for evidence-based physical therapist practice in managing young children with neuromotor impairment is strong, as Barry concluded in a recent review: "Although there is an undeniable art to pediatric physical therapy, the heart of our practice should be the scientific basis of our interventions." (1)(p50) One such effort in rehabilitation has been the development of constraint-induced movement therapy, which was designed to improve upper-extremity (UE) function in patients with hemiparesis secondary to neurological injuries such as stroke. Two distinct features of constraint-induced movement therapy for adult patients with mild to moderately severe hemiparetic ...