CP-NET wants to understand how different interventions work in the brain by using brain imaging. Understanding how the brain is impacted will help us to improve the interventions.
Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) is a proven treatment for children with hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy (CP) to help gain more functioning in their affected arm and hand.
Advanced imaging strategies have allowed researchers and clinicians to look at how the brain rewires and learns to use the affected areas again. Using innovative imaging techniques to reveal the brain mechanisms and predictors underlying interventions for CP, we can better understand why current therapies work and help predict who they will work best for.