Effectof hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy in spastic cerebral palsy

Objective: determine the effects of hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy (habit) in children presenting with spastic type of cerebral palsy. methods: a quasi-experimental study was conducted in children hospital and compass. a sample of 30 children with cerebral palsy aged between 6 to 12 years was studied and assessment was made before and after the implementation of treatment through abilhand kids questionnaire. the duration of this study was 6 months from december 2014 to may 2015. the recruiting strategy used was convenience sampling. intervention was given for a period of 90 hours for 9 weeks. qualitative variables were expressed as proportions (percentages). before and after comparisons were made using non-parametric wilcoxon signed rank test since the data was obtained as scores. a pvalue less than 0.05 were taken as significant. results: bimanual therapy had significant effect on manual abilities of a child presenting with spastic type of cerebral palsy. the p value was calculated as 0.000. conclusion: habit appears to be effective in improving the manual ability of spastic cerebral palsy children. © 2016,pakistan pediatric journal. all rights reserved.