Active clinical trials for "Hemiplegia"

The purpose of this study is to develop a clinical algorithmic-based evaluation and treatment approach for C-Brace for use by persons with hemiparesis or hemiplegia due to stroke.

The main objective: To determine changes in physiological and structural properties of upper limb muscles with spasticity in patients with acquired brain injury after applying neural mobilization improving their functional performance, their participation in society and quality of life. Hypothesis: Peripheral nerve mobilizations performed with neurodynamic techniques in upper limb in patients with acquired brain injury, generate changes at structural and physiological level, favoring the performance of daily life activities and improving the quality of life.

Working on a vertical surface is one of the best activities children can do to make themselves more successful in many areas as an infant which builds all those foundational skills required for the all-important task of handwriting.

A randomized control trial of bimanual training. The protocols have been developed at Columbia University to be child friendly and draws upon our experience since 1997 with constraint-induced movement therapy in children with cerebral palsy.

Cerebral palsy is the most frequent motor deficiency in children. Among other, it can leads to spastic diplegia or hemiplegia. Walking abilities is an important skill to the families' point of view in term of independence in curent life. Improving the walking parameters has been the main objective in several studies of rehabilitation. The G-EO system is a last generation robot assisting gait training that can adjust cadence, walk lengh, ankle and hip angles and other walking parameters to movement captation. Its superiority in terms of walking abilities has been demonstrated in adults with stroke sequelae. Only one study was realized in pediatric patients with spastic diplegia with promising results. The investigators hypothesize that intensive robot-assited gait training using the G-EO system in hemiplegic children can improve their walking abilities.

30 children with a diagnosis of hemiplegic cerebral palsy

The purposes of this study are to examine sonographic structural changes pre and post the radial extracorporeal shock wave intervention in hemiplegic shoulder pain, and to assess the relationships between sonographic structural changes and hemiplegic shoulder pain.

Chinese Acupuncture can improve the motor ability of patients after having first acute ischemic stroke, in time scale up to 3 weeks from when the ischemic stroke occur and in minimum receiving number of 3 Acupuncture treatments. The accepted treatment on cerebral vascular accident (CVA) is focus on two lines: the first is the treatment when the stroke occurs, and the second is prevention from having more cerebral vascular accident in the future. In the first accepted treatment line, the only medicinal measure that stand up in critique of organized researches, is Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA), and there is Short and limited time after the CVA occur that it can be used. Also (TPA) can be used only on part of the patients with specific defined criterions. The aim of this study is to add a new accepted treatment method that appointed to improve the results of acute ischemic stroke by Chinese Acupuncture. The written works on this topic is unambiguously.

The purpose of this study is to assess the functionality of the affected upper limb in infantile hemiplegia by applying a protocol of modified constraint-induced movement therapy.

A randomized control trial examining the relationship between changes in hand function and brain plasticity following intensive therapy. Two treatment approaches are used: constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) or Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy (HABIT). The protocols have been developed at TC Columbia University to be child friendly and draw upon our extensive experience with constraint-induced movement therapy in children with cerebral palsy. Our center has been providing interventions camps for children with cerebral palsy since 1998. The interventions are performed in a 15 day day-camp setting with several children and at least one interventionist per child. The aim of the intervention is to improve the use of the affected hand and quality of overall movement in a fun, social setting. PARTICIPATION IS FREE. Please check out our website for more information: http://www.tc.edu/centers/cit/