Effect of Vojta Therapy on Upper Extremity Function of Children With Cerebral Palsy

the children have to pick the 1"*1" cube blocks from one side of the box to the other side in 1 minute

the children was asked to active move their shoulder, elbow and wrist for measurement

the children have to pick 9 pegs from the container to insert into the providing holes and record the time

the markers were attached at back, sternum, both shoulders, elbows and wrists. Then, children were to forward rech the object on the table. The camera and mrakers will record and analyz the motion of both upper extremities. This measurement will be done only in children who was treated with Vojta therapy group only. This measurement will report in distance of maximum reaching, velocity and angle velocitym of shoulder, elbow, wrist with forearm pronation/supination. The other parameters are movement duration, peak velocity, time to peak velocity and trajectory straigthness.

The camera video will record the distance of maximum reaching in forward reaching and lateral reaching during the 3D kinematics evaluation in the gait lab of both upper extremities movement. This outcome was done in only the intervention group who received Vojta treatment.

The Kinect sensor evaluation of both upper extremities during playing computer game. Children will be asked to move their upper extremities according to game instructions: arm abduction/adduction, arm forward flexion/extension and elbow flexion/extension. During playing the computer game, there is a kinect sensor to detect motion of upper extremities and capture motion of movement in terms of range of motion, angle of movement in 3 dimensions and velocity of movements. while children playing game, there are recording of the movement via 3D motion analysis from gait lab. The parameters from Kinect sensor will be compared to the parameters which are recorded from the gait lab.