Research Article
Somatosensory Plasticity in Pediatric Cerebral Palsy following Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy
Table 1
Characteristics of cerebral palsy in the tested patients.
| | Subject | Sex | Age | More affected side | MACS | Preterm (<37 weeks) | Findings on clinical neuroimaging |
| | 1 | M | 8 | R | 2 | 0 | Partial agenesis of the left cerebellar hemisphere with mild rotational shift of the brainstem | | 2 | F | 6 | L | 3 | 0 | Prominent neuronal migration disorder in the right hemisphere with dysgenesis | | 3 | F | 8 | L | 1 | 1 | Right temporal cystic encephalomalacia | | 4 | M | 6 | L | 2 | 1 | Left frontal parietal IVH, grade IV | | 5 | M | 6 | L | 2 | 0 | Bilateral IVH grade III and prematurity with ventricular dilation, right PLIC | | 6 | M | 8 | L | 2 | 1 | Right IVH grade IV, right PLIC | | 7 | F | 6 | R | 1 | 0 | Stroke, left PLIC | | 8 | F | 5 | L | 1 | 1 | Bacterial meningitis 36 weeks MRI, diffuse injury more marked on the right hemisphere | | 9 | F | 5 | R | 2 | 0 | Ischemic lesions, left more prominent than right basal ganglia affected, PLIC not affected | | 10 | M | 7 | R | 1 | 0 | Left subarachnoid and subdural hemorrhages |
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PLIC: posterior limb of the internal capsule; IVH: intraventricular hemorrhage; MACS: manual abilities classification scores.
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