Observational analysis found significant links between manual ability and motor/sensory impairments in children with cerebral palsy, implying important implications for therapy.
Background: Cerebral Palsy (CP) describes as a group of permanent disorder of development of movement and posture causing activity limitation that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances occurred in developing fetal or infant brain. Method: Two motor and two sensory impairments were measured on both hands. Motor impairments included grip strength (hand held dynamometer), gross manual dexterity (Box and Block Test). Sensory impairments included stereognosis (Manual Form Perception Test) and proprioception (passive mobilization of the metacarpophalangeal joints). Manual ability was measured with the ABILHAND-Kids questionnaire. The correlation between hand impairments and manual ability was studied through Multivariate regression analysis. Result: Motor impairments, sensory impairments were statistically signicant. GMD 51% was maximum and able to predict manual ability followed by proprioception (34%) stereognosis (38%). Grip strength was not able to predict the manual ability. result it can be predicted that manual ability is highly dependent on GMD. Conclusion: The present study concluded that, manual ability was statistically signicant but moderately correlated with both motor and sensory impairments. As well as motor and sensory impairments were signicantly but strongly correlated with each other. Hence it can also be concluded that grip strength, manual dexterity, sensory impairments all affects manual ability of a cerebral palsy child and hampers the upper limb performance.
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