Article

Difference of In-Hand Manipulation Pattern between Normal Adults and Cerebral Palsied Children

Author

이지은(Jee-Eun Lee), 정혜원(Hye-Won Chung), 오윤택(Yun-Taek 0), 이지영(Ji-Young Lee)

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pp. 36~43 / 1998 Vol.6 No.1

Abstract

Recently the researches to enhance the hand function of brain injured clients are increased. One of those aspects is related to in-hand manipluation. In-hand manipulation is divided to four types: that is finger-to-palm translation.palm-to-finger translation, shift, and rotation. The purpose of this study was to find type of in-hand manipulation in normal adults in six activities and to differentiate the pattern of in-hand manipulation between normal adults and children with cerebral palsy. The participants were consist of twenty normal adults and twenty cerebral palsy. children. As a results, cerebral palsy children significantly used at lower frequence than normal adults in 3 activities. Also, in the other items, there are some pattern to differenciate between normal adults and cerebral palsy children but that was not significant statistically. The development of in-hand manipulation skills involves improvement in the dimension of activities of daily living skills training and more detailed evaluation method will be needed.

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