Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license
Authors
- shole farahmand 1
- elahe arabameri
- shahzad tahmasebi boroujeni 2
- Mehdi M Mirbagheri 3
- morteza heidari 4
1 Phd student, Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences in Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate professor, Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences in Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 Associate professor, Department Biomedical Engineering & Medical Physics, faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 5- Associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: Researches that investigated the function of the upper limb of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, used single-handed tasks including the technique of limiting the healthy hand initially and then the approach of bimanual movement, such as intensive bimanual therapy, but the research that investigate the effect of bimanual handball catching exercises, not observed. the purpose of this study was to investigate hand performance after bimanual catching handball exercises in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
Methods: The participants were 5 children referred to Fakhr Sadegh Clinic with an average age (10.2±2.28) who were selected Convenience. The parents of the children completed the consent form. Each participant was tested once before and once after training using the Purdue pegboard test, and the performance of one-handed, two-handed simultaneously and consecutively was checked. The participants performed two 30-minute sessions of bimanual exercises every week for a total of six weeks.
Results: The results were analyzed through spss27 software. Paired t-test showed that the performance of the less affected hand and consecutive bimanual coordination increased significantly, but simultaneous bimanual coordination did not improve significantly. Also, the Wilcoxon test did not show a significant improvement in the more affected hand.
Conclusion: The improvement of consecutive bimanual coordination after bimanual catching handball exercises can be due to the use of the ball, which improved the cognitive dimension more than the motor dimension
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