{"id":71,"date":"2016-07-04T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.childhooddisability.ca\/\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2016-07-18T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T18:27:13","slug":"learn-about-cimt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/therapies\/learn-about-cimt\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about CIMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is an intervention that has proven to be effective for improving motor skills in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy. CIMT consists of three key elements: intensity, restraint and shaping. This intervention is currently being used in many centers as a form of rehabilitation therapy for children with cerebral palsy.<\/p>\n<h2>Signature constraint-induced movement therapy<\/h2>\n<p>Restraint of the well-functioning upper limb for almost all waking hours for a minimum of 2 weeks, which is accompanied by intensive training of the involved upper limb for at least 3 hours per day.<\/p>\n<h2>Modified constraint-induced movement therapy (mCIMT)<\/h2>\n<p>Restraint and intensive training are included in this model of delivery however certain features vary, including the type of restraint of the non-affected upper limb, the type of structured training provided, program duration and length and the location, context and provider of training.<\/p>\n<h2>Hybrid CIMT<\/h2>\n<p>The key components of mCIMT are utilized and are also accompanied by bimanual training.<\/p>\n<h2>Forced use<\/h2>\n<p>Restraining of the well-functioning hand\/arm but not accompanied by a structured training program.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Source: Eliasson, A., Krumlinde-Sundholm, L., Gordon, A., Feys, H., Klingels, K., Aarts, P., et al. Guidelines for future research in constraint-induced movement therapy for children with unilateral cerebral palsy: an expert consensus. Developmental Medicine &amp; Child Neurology 2014; 56: 125-137.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is an intervention that has proven to be effective for improving motor skills in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy. CIMT consists of three key elements: intensity, restraint and shaping. This intervention is currently being used in many centers as a form of rehabilitation therapy for children with cerebral palsy. Signature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/239"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childhooddisability.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}