Kinesiotherapy on Upper Limb Function and Activities of Daily Living in Children With Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

This study will be randomized controlled trial, data will be collected from BASES special education school sialkot , Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital, sialkot and Lahore. The study will include 28 patients equally divided into two groups and randomly allocated. Inclusion criteria for the study will be age of 8-13 years old of both sexes, ability to follow simple instructions, able to sit or stand with support to participate in physical therapy sessions( MACS level Ⅰ-Ⅲ) and (GMFCS level Ⅰ-Ⅲ), ability to communicate needs and discomfort (verbally or non-verbally), No concurrent participation in other physical therapy and excluded with Severe visual and hearing impairments, severe cognitive disabilities, History of seizures, Recent (within 6 months) or planned orthopedic surgery, Concurrent use of botulinum toxin injections. Experimental group will perform both Kinesiotherapy protocol and conventional physical therapy while Control group will perform only conventional physical therapy for 8 weeks 2-3 times weekly with 45 min of each session. Outcomes to be analyzed will be upper limb function and Activities of daily living (ADLs). Tools used for data collection will be Action Research Arm (ARA) test, Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI). Data will be analyzed through SPSS version 26, 27.