Motor Training for Infants With Cerebral Palsy

Description

The intervention in this study, Let's Move, is a motor intervention for infants at risk for cerebral palsy. We will test the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention as well as preliminary effectiveness.

Conditions

Cerebral Palsy

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Study Details

Study overview

The intervention in this study, Let's Move, is a motor intervention for infants at risk for cerebral palsy. We will test the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention as well as preliminary effectiveness.

Motor Training Intervention for Infants at High-Risk for Cerebral Palsy: Feasibility and Acceptability

Motor Training for Infants With Cerebral Palsy

Condition
Cerebral Palsy
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Cincinnati

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Age at enrollment: between 3-8 months corrected age
  • * Caregivers fluent in English
  • * Preterm infants with objectively defined severe diffuse white matter abnormality on MRI at term OR
  • * High-risk infants (e.g., preterm, neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, perinatal stroke) with moderate-severe injury on structural MRI or cranial ultrasound (e.g., basal ganglia/thalamic signal intensity, cystic periventricular leukomalacia, encephalomalacia, large stroke, and/or severe intraventricular/periventricular hemorrhage) at around term-equivalent age or before Neonatal Intensive Care Unit discharge AND either:
  • * "Absent" fidgety movements based on the Prechtl General Movement Assessment (GMA) between 3-4 months corrected age OR
  • * A score of 56 or below on the Hammersmith Infant Neuromotor Examination (HINE) between 3-6 months corrected age (31)
  • * Medical conditions that restrict active participation such as oxygen dependence
  • * Infants with significant visual deficits defined by the inability to track an object horizontally
  • * Living in a remote location prohibiting drives to the hospital every other week.

Ages Eligible for Study

3 Months to 8 Months

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati,

Karen Harpster, PhD, OTR/L, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Study Record Dates

2026-01-01