Experimental PT treatment proving successful
Rehab Regs, February 27, 2004
Children with cerebral palsy who are severely impaired showed significant improvement in their motor skills, using a new experimental PT regimen, according to researchers at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and the University of Alabama. According to Biotech Week, researchers placed the stronger arms of participants in casts for three weeks and gave them six hours of therapy per day to train the weaker arm and hand to move. Across all measures, the constraint-induced therapy produced enhanced motor function in the weaker arm. Six months later, the children still had sustained benefits.
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