Bleyenheuft, YannickAraneda Oyaneder, RodrigoHerman, EnimieEnimieHerman2025-05-142025-05-142025-05-142021https://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/22768BACKGROUND: The « Hand and Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy – Including Lower Extremity » (HABIT-ILE) for children with cerebral palsy (CP) stimulates the upper limbs, lower limbs and postural control to improve the child's functional independence in everyday life activities. OBJECTIVES: The aim is to evaluate if some characteristics of children with unilateral CP (MACS, GMFCS, lesion type, lesion side and CST reorganization) could influence the effectiveness of HABIT-ILE. METHODS: 51 children with unilateral CP participated to a HABIT-ILE camp between 2013 and 2019. All children were assessed before (T1) and after the 2-weeks of intervention (T2). Paired-t tests and Forward Stepwise Regressions were conducted to analyse the effectiveness of HABIT-ILE and to identify the characteristics (independent variables) that best predicted the effectiveness of HABIT-ILE (dependent variable) respectively. RESULTS: Lesion type can slightly influence the MFPT-MA changes (6,2%); lesion side can slightly influence the AHA changes (12,8%) and the BBT-MA changes (6,9%); CST reorganization can slightly influence the AHA changes (6,2%) and JTTHF-MA changes (13,3%). CONCLUSION: This study showed that HABIT-ILE has significant positive effects in upper and lower extremities of children with unilateral CP. The effectiveness of HABIT-ILE measured by some functional assessments (AHA, BBT-MA, MFPT-MA and JTTHF-MA) can slightly be predicted by the lesion side, lesion type and CST reorganization.unilateral cerebral palsyHABIT-ILEMACSGMFCSlesion typelesion sideCorticospinal tract reorganizationtext::thesis::master thesisthesis:28887