School of Occupational Therapy
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Item Difference in bilateral upper limb muscle activation during the assisting hand assessement in children affected by unilateral cerebral palsy(The Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society, 2022) Puissegur, Ophelie; Ulman, Sophia; Roberts, Heather; Shierk, Angela; Loewen, Alex; Erdman, Ashley; Tulchin-Francis, KirstenINTRODUCTION Cerebral palsy (CP) refers to a group of childhood-onset disorders that affect an individual’s ability to move and maintain posture due to a brain lesion occurring during in utero development. When the lesion affects motor areas on one side of the brain, an impairment of movement and posture will be manifested on the contralateral side. The most common CP condition is called unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP), leading to challenges with daily activities due to decreased function [1] and use of their affected upper limb. The purpose of this study was to evaluate side-to-side muscle activation differences during the Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA), a performance based assessment that measures how children with upper limb impairments use their involved limb as an assisting hand during bimanual activities [2].