A brief intervention with robot-assisted therapy could improve upper limb function in children with cerebral palsy (CP), a new study shows. Researchers randomly assigned 16 children with CP to receive three sessions of conventional therapy and two robot-assisted therapy sessions, or five sessions of conventional therapy. In a blinded assessment, the children who had received robot-assisted therapy showed markedly improved smoothness of movement and manual dexterity compared with the children in the conventional therapy group.
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Robot-assisted physiotherapy in cerebral palsy. Nat Rev Neurol 10, 427 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2014.130
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2014.130