The Pirate Group Intervention Protocol: Description and a Case Report of a Modified Constraint-induced Movement Therapy Combined with Bimanual Training for Young Children with Unilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Occupational Therapy International

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 76-87

  Aarts, Pauline B ^a   van Hartingsveldt, Margo ^b   Anderson, Patricia G ^a   van den Tillaar, Ingrid ^a   van der Burg, Jan ^a   Geurts, Alexander C ^b  

^a Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation ^*  (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bimanual training (BiT); Cerebral palsy (CP); Modified constraint induced movement therapy (mCIMT); Video Observations Aarts and Aarts (VOAA)

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL PALSY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECREATION;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXERCISE MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84861918340     PISSN: 09667903     EISSN: 15570703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oti.321     Document Type: Article

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