Body representation in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
Clinical observations indicate that many children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy refrain from using or disregard the affected upper limb. The aim of the present study is to investigate deficits in different body representations (body schema, body structural description, and body image) in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP) compared to typically-developing (TD) children. Three groups of children participated in this study: 42 TD children (aged 5.17-10.91 years), 23 children with right HCP (aged 5.83-10.92 years), and 22 children with left HCP (aged 5.67-10.90 years). The results demonstrate generalized deficits in all three body representations in children with HCP, and do not offer evidence for an effect of hemiplegia laterality.
a Programa de Pós-graduação em Neurociências , Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte , Brazil.|b Department of Physiotherapy , Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte , Brazil.
Patrícia Lemos Bueno
PLB
Fontes
a Programa de Pós-graduação em Neurociências , Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte , Brazil.
Thalita Karla Flores
TKF
Cruz
a Programa de Pós-graduação em Neurociências , Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte , Brazil.
Deisiane Oliveira
DO
Souto
a Programa de Pós-graduação em Neurociências , Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte , Brazil.
Ricardo
R
Moura
a Programa de Pós-graduação em Neurociências , Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte , Brazil.
Vitor Geraldi
VG
Haase
D001828:Body Image; D001938:Brazil; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis
Body image; Body representation; Body schema; Body structural description; Hemiplegic cerebral palsy