Somatosensory Plasticity in Pediatric Cerebral Palsy following Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy

Table 3

Results of the neurosensory tests as carried out for the more and less affected hand after the CIMT intervention.

Test	Hand	Unit	Mean	Std. deviation	value
Somatosensory registration	More affected	Semmes monofilament force in grams	2.83	.01	.343
	Less affected		2.83	.00
Single-point localization	More affected	# correctly identified localisations (max. 4)	2.90	.32	—
	Less affected		2.90	.32
Two-point discrimination	More affected	Distance in millimeters	3.89	1.90	.037
	Less affected		2.22	.67
Stereognosis	More affected	# correctly identified pairs (max. 9)	5.30	2.79	<.025
	Less affected		8.20	1.14
Pinch	More affected	psi	1.88	.78	<.001
	Less affected		3.30	1.06
Grip	More affected	psi	4.1	2.28	<.007
	Less affected		7.10	2.81