Baby HABIT-ILE intervention: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial in infants aged 6-18 months with unilateral cerebral palsy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Research using animal models suggests that intensive motor skill training in infants under 2 years old with cerebral palsy (CP) may significantly reduce, or even prevent, maladaptive neuroplastic changes following brain injury. However, the effects of such interventions to tentatively prevent secondary neurological damages have never been assessed in infants with CP. This study aims to determine the effect of the baby Hand and Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities (baby HABIT-ILE) in infants with unilateral CP, compared with a control intervention.

Methods and analysis

This randomised controlled trial will include 48 infants with unilateral CP aged (corrected if preterm) 6-18 months at the first assessment. They will be paired by age and by

SUBMITTER: Carton de Tournai A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10875549 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature