Avaliação da sensibilidade, função motora de membros superiores e desempenho funcional de crianças portadoras de paralisia cerebral

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Children with cerebral palsy can show somatosensorial handicap in fine motor skills and, in additional with motor problems, they may influence the development of manual abilities and the capacity to execute living daily skills. The objective of this study was to evaluate sensibility, upper extremity skills and performance in self care of children with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy, and to verify the relation among these variables. We studied two independent groups of 30 children each, age ranging from 7 to 8 years. The cerebral palsy children (GI) were selected at the Associao de Assistncia a Criana Deficiente (AACD), and were compared with normal children (GII), all of them enrolled in a public school, both Institutions were in the city of So Paulo. In a sectional study, we used the Two-Point Discrimination Test (D2P), Localization of Tactile Stimuli Test (LET), Sterognosis, Quality of Upper Extremity Skills Test (QUEST) and the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI). T

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