Test 03 - Part B - Extract 6
Vocab level: C1
Constraint-Induced Therapy in Pediatrics
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The material in this exercise belongs to OET BANK — an online resource for Medical English learners preparing for OET.
I'm a physiotherapist, and I'm presenting our poster about constraint-induced movement therapy
for children suffering from partial paralysis following brain surgery.
We did a case series of four children who'd all undergone hemispherectomies.
They were admitted to inpatient therapy within two weeks post-op
and began therapy two to three weeks post-op.
The therapy continued after they were discharged.
Our findings were that three of the kids regained excellent function and mobility with ambulation and upper extremity function.
One didn't do so well, unfortunately,
but he gave up the therapy early on.
This type of movement therapy has been used a lot in adult populations following stroke.
The findings here promote moving forward with further research on the pediatric or adolescent population
following either hemispherectomy or other surgeries
to help us decide how appropriate this therapy would be for them.
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