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Abstract

Background. Development of motor pathways is modulated by activity in these pathways, when they are maturing (ie, critical period). Perinatal stroke injures motor pathways, including the corticospinal tracts, reducing their action and impairing motor role. Current intervention for the lower limb emphasizes passive approaches (stretching, braces, botulinum toxin injections). The study hypothesis was that intensive, early, child–initiated activity during the critical menstruation volition enhance connectivity of motor pathways to the legs and improve motor function.

Objective. The study objective was to determine whether early intervention with intensive activeness is meliorate than standard intendance, intervention delivered during the proposed critical period is better than later on, and the outcomes are different when the intervention is delivered by a physical therapist in an establishment vs. a parent at habitation.

Design. A prospective, filibuster-group, unmarried-bullheaded, randomized controlled trial (RCT) and a parallel, cohort written report of children living across commuting distance and receiving an intervention delivered by their parent.

Setting. The RCT intervention was provided in academy laboratories, and parent training was provided in the childs dwelling house.

Participants. Children 8 months to iii years old with MRI-confirmed perinatal ischemic stroke and early signs of hemiparesis.

Intervention. Intensive, play-based leg activeness with weights for the afflicted leg and foot, i hr/twenty-four hours, four days/week for 12 weeks.

Measurements. The principal issue was the Gross Motor Function Measure-66 score. Secondary outcomes were motion analysis of walking, full-solar day footstep counts, motor evoked potentials from transcranial magnetic stimulation, and patellar tendon reflexes.

Limitations. Inter-individual heterogeneity in the severity of the stroke and behavioral differences are substantial but measurable. Differences in intervention commitment and assessment scoring are minimized by standardization and training.

Conclusions. The intervention, contrary to current practice, could change physical therapy interventions for children with perinatal stroke.

Perinatal stroke is a leading cause of hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP), which accounts for almost 30% of CP. ¹ The children typically develop unilateral sensory and motor impairments contralateral to the affected cortex. Their motility bug have been associated with damage to motor pathways from the brain, including the corticospinal tract (CST). ²

Current treatment to improve upper limb function frequently includes constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT), in which the unaffected hand is constrained while intense, structured training is provided to the afflicted mitt. ^iii–6 These interventions are highly effective. ^7,8 In contrast, treatment for the leg is more passive, typically including stretching, an talocrural joint-foot orthosis for the affected leg, ⁹ and botulinum toxin A injections to reduce the abnormal muscle tone. ¹⁰ There has been less focus on targeted, activity-based interventions to meliorate leg function and minimize gait abnormalities. ^11,12 Indeed, gait abnormalities likely contribute to premature, secondary complications such as osteoarthritis, ^13,14 leading to reduced mobility with age. ¹⁵

Action-Dependent Development of Motor Pathways During a Critical Menses

One opportunity presented past a brain injury early in life compared to later in adulthood is that the young brain is more malleable. A series of studies in kittens take demonstrated the vital importance of early limb movements in the evolution of the CST. ^sixteen In mammals, including humans, the CST initially projects extensively to both sides of the spinal string. Through a competitive, activity-dependent process called refinement, many ipsilateral nerve endings retract, leading to the mature, contralateral blueprint of innervation. ^17,18 Action is essential for refinement, every bit demonstrated past the chemical inactivation of 1 primary motor cortex, betwixt postnatal weeks 3–7 in kittens. ¹⁹ In these animals, the silenced side of the motor cortex is at a disadvantage, resulting in a permanent harm in the use of the contralateral limb, with parallel alterations to the motor circuits. ^twenty,21 Importantly, if these weakened motor pathways are afterward activated, either by electric stimulation of the pathways ²² or by motor grooming ²³ while the animal is still young (postnatal weeks viii–10), the histological and behavioral abnormalities are reversed. Identical intervention at an older historic period (postnatal weeks 20–24) is not every bit effective. ²³ Hence, neuronal activeness and limb use are essential during the critical period for the normal development of the motor circuits in kittens.

In children with perinatal stroke (stroke between 20 weeks' gestation and 28 days after birth ²⁴), the lesion reduces the activity of pathways from the affected motor cortex during refinement, putting those pathways at a disadvantage. The resulting innervation of the CST to muscles of the upper limbs becomes dominated past pathways from the unaffected cortex, which includes the normal contralateral projection to the unaffected limb, and an aberrant ipsilateral project to the afflicted limb. ²⁵ In contrast, projections from the injured side are weak. ²⁵ The aberrant ipsilateral projection from the intact cortex has been associated with poorer function of the upper extremity. ^26,27 Innervation of the CST to the lower limb during development in humans is presumed similar to the upper limb, but remains unknown considering it has been hard to obtain responses in the leg with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in children under iv years old. ²⁸

Estimating the Disquisitional Period for Motor Development in Children

The CST axons attain the lumbar spinal cord around post-gestational week 31, ^29,thirty and likely penetrate the gray matter to innervate motor neurons that supply the muscles to the leg by post-gestational calendar week 40. Myelination of these CST axons remains immature through two years old, when markers for mature myelin become established. ^thirty Since mature myelin limits plasticity, we predict that the critical period for the refinement of CST to the lower extremities occurs before the age of 2 years.

Early Interventions in Children

Previous attempts at intervening early in children at risk for CP are summarized in systematic reviews. ^31–33 The majority of studies accept focused on Neurodevelopmental Handling (NDT), an approach equanimous largely of handling techniques (ie, passive) and sensory stimulation, with the key ingredient for motor development missing—intensive, child-initiated motor activity.

Reports of kid-initiated, activeness-based therapy for the lower limb are sparse. Feasibility for intensive therapy of the lower extremity in young children has been demonstrated, ³⁴ in which improvements in gross motor function (Gross Motor Function Measure: GMFM-88), walking speed, and cadence were seen in some. More recently, a single-participant blueprint tested the feasibility and effectiveness of a dynamic, body-weight support system that allowed the children to feel and exercise locomotor skills on their own over ground for 6 weeks. ³⁵ Gross motor part (GMFM-66) improved more than during the intervention period compared to the 6 weeks before and after the intervention. Some other study, using a home program of leg exercises in very young children (<1 year old), showed no differences between the intervention and control groups, just both participation in the exercise and the intervention intensity (viii min/twenty-four hours, 5 days/calendar week) was very low. ³⁶

Here, the protocol for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) is described. The primary objective is to determine if early on, intensive leg preparation in children with perinatal stroke improves leg office across standard care. The secondary objectives are to determine whether: a) the preparation induces neuroplasticity in the CST and spinal circuitry, b) the historic period at intervention affects the outcome, and c) the context of the training (therapist in an institution vs. parent at dwelling house) affects the outcome. Results from the airplane pilot work prior to this trial are published. ³⁷

Methods

Report Design

A prospective, delay-group, single-blind, randomized controlled trial (RCT; Effigy 1—Espoused menstruation diagram—RCT in yellow blocks) is being carried out at ii sites: Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Subsequently baseline measures, enrolled children are randomly allocated to first intervention immediately—Firsthand Group—or filibuster the treatment—Delay Group (both for a three-calendar month elapsing). The Delay Group serves equally the control, and volition too train for 3 months post-obit the Delay period, in the same style as the Immediate Group. All children are followed for iii months after training. In addition, all children are assessed when they turn four years old, to compare them with another group of 4-year-old children with the aforementioned diagnoses receiving standard care just. A biostatistician generated the group allocation sequence using a calculator-generated permuted block blueprint (block size 2 to 8), which is concealed in sequentially numbered, sealed envelopes. Clinical and walking outcomes are taken twice at baseline, and so monthly for the Delay, Intervention, and Follow-Upwards Periods. Neurophysiological measures and full-twenty-four hours step counts are taken at baseline, so at the end of each 3-calendar month period, and once more at 4 years onetime, since these measures are not expected to change apace.

Figure one.

CONSORT flow diagram. Eligible children enter either the randomized controlled trial (RCT–yellow blocks) if their parents live within commuting distance or the Parent Preparation trial (green blocks) if they alive too far. Children in the RCT are allocated to either railroad train immediately (Immediate Group) or delay grooming for 3 months (Delay Group). The Delay Group volition serve as a command, and they will be trained afterward the delay catamenia. All children will be followed for 3 months afterwards training and remeasured at 4 years former, when they will be compared with a split group of 4-twelvemonth-olds who take not trained. Upshot measures are taken as outlined on the right. GMFM-66 = Gross Motor Part Measure out-66, TMS = transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Figure 1.

Espoused menstruum diagram. Eligible children enter either the randomized controlled trial (RCT–yellow blocks) if their parents live within commuting distance or the Parent Training trial (green blocks) if they live too far. Children in the RCT are allocated to either train immediately (Firsthand Group) or delay grooming for 3 months (Filibuster Group). The Delay Group volition serve as a command, and they will be trained afterwards the filibuster period. All children volition be followed for iii months afterward training and remeasured at four years one-time, when they will be compared with a separate group of 4-year-olds who have not trained. Effect measures are taken as outlined on the correct. GMFM-66 = Gross Motor Function Measure-66, TMS = transcranial magnetic stimulation.

In parallel with the RCT, children whose families live beyond commuting distance can participate (Parent Training; Figure 1—dark-green blocks), in which the child is trained by a parent/guardian, who is coached by our therapists. These children are followed in the aforementioned way as the children in the RCT. This group will address the Secondary Objective, context of the training (above), which is peculiarly interesting given the favorable results from dwelling-based CIMT. ⁶

Participants and Recruitment

Inclusion criteria were equally follows:

1. Hemiplegia with MRI-confirmed perinatal stroke, categorized equally neonatal arterial ischemic stroke, arterial presumed perinatal ischemic stroke, or periventricular venous infarct. ^38,39

2. Built-in at ≥32 weeks' gestation, with current age between eight months and 3 years old.

3. No other neurological disorders.

4. Written, informed consent from parent/guardian.

5. Parent/guardian able to attend all tests and grooming.

Exclusion criteria were as follows:

1. All-encompassing brain injuries beyond the unilateral stroke.

2. Musculoskeletal/cognitive/behavioral impairments that forbid participation in the protocol.

3. Unstable epileptic seizures within the by vi months or on anti-epileptic medication.

4. Any contraindications to TMS.

5. Botulinum toxin injection or surgery in the legs over the by 6 months.

Participants are identified past our clinical partners. Potentially suitable participants are screened in person by a research physical therapist. Evidence of perinatal stroke is confirmed by a child neurologist (authors AK or JY).

Sample Size Estimate

Pilot data from 3 children suggested that the outcome size with the primary outcome measure (GMFM-66) is about 1.0. This is based on a GMFM-66 change of five.5 points, and the predicted modify over 3 months without intervention of approximately 3.5, for children with a GMFCS level of i or 2 around 1.five years onetime. ⁴⁰ The standard deviation of the change score is estimated to be 2, resulting in a sample size of approximately 16/group.

Therapist-Directed Intervention

The grooming is ane hour/day, 4 days a week for 12 weeks, delivered past a physical therapist at the university. The goal of preparation is intensive, child-initiated movement from the affected lower extremity. Manual assistance for balance is provided as needed to forbid falls. Activities include ascending and descending stairs and ramps, walking on stable and unstable surfaces, stepping over obstacles, balancing in continuing, kicking, and squatting to pick up items. All activities are play based. A session ends after 1 hour or when a child is no longer able or willing to participate in the activities. The aim is for 60 minutes of child-initiated activity.

To increase do intensity, weights are placed on the dorsum of the foot and the ankle of the afflicted limb when the child has sufficient endurance to stay agile for 50 to hr. Talocrural joint weights are commercially available in increments of 110 thou, and foot weights are ¼" chain links, ∼20 m each, affixed to the pes with elasticized cloth or tape (Figure two). Children railroad train either in their socks or with soft-soled slippers to enhance active use of the foot and ankle muscles. The weights are called to induce slight disproportion in walking, since movement mistake induces learning. ^41,42 Once walking looks symmetric, the weights are increased. Step counters (StepWatch; Modus Health, Washington, DC) certificate the total number of steps every session, and volunteers document fourth dimension spent in each of 3 types of action: walking (including climbing stairs, ramps), standing (balancing, kicking), and other (which can include jumping, itch).

Figure 2.

Weights used in grooming. Ankle weights are attached around the lower leg, and ¼" chain links are used on the foot to resist dorsiflexion. Elasticized material holds the chain link in place.

Figure 2.

Weights used in training. Ankle weights are fastened around the lower leg, and ¼" chain links are used on the human foot to resist dorsiflexion. Elasticized material holds the concatenation link in identify.

Treatment Fidelity

Alignment of the therapist training between the centers is achieved through weekly teleconference meetings, in which the documentation from preparation is reviewed, and discrepancies addressed. Video recordings of a full preparation session are compared periodically. Finally, each therapist visits the other centre at least once a year to observe and discuss the training.

Parent-Directed Intervention

Parents are coached prior to the training catamenia, in two 1-hour sessions, in which the parent(due south) observe and help the therapist with training of their child. Preparation goals are explained forth with logistics and progression. The parent(s) are provided with a training manual and video that details suggested activities, tailored to the kid's age grouping (eAppendix, available at academic.oup.com/ptj). Ankle and foot weights are provided. The therapist makes weekly phone contact with the family to review training. Grooming is reviewed by the therapist at monthly visits for testing, and more ofttimes if parents asking. The aim is to make the grooming every bit similar as possible with children trained by therapists. Parents certificate dwelling training using footstep counters and written logs every session.

Intervention Outcomes

The outcomes were called to reflect a) gross motor function, b) kinematics of walking, c) participation in life, d) excitability/connectivity of the CST, and e) excitability of spinal reflexes.

The primary outcome mensurate was gross motor function, as measured with the GMFM-66. GMFM-66 is a benchmark-referenced observational measure to assess change in gross motor function in children with CP. Sixty-6 tasks are scored, including the dimensions of: 1) lying and rolling, 2) sitting, 3) crawling and kneeling, 4) standing, and 5) walking/running/jumping. ⁴³ Reliability, validity, and responsiveness to change take been established for children 0.5 years one-time and older. ^44,45

The GMFM-66 is measured by pediatric physical therapists who are non delivering the treatment, and are blinded to the child'southward group assignment. All assessors participate in initial grooming and yearly meetings to marshal assessments. Two initial measures, one week apart, are averaged to amend the reliability at baseline. The measure is then repeated monthly throughout the written report by the aforementioned physical therapist. Blinding is possible because the assessments and training locations are separate. Assessing therapists are further asked to approximate the child'south study group at each assessment, so that the guess scores can exist used to determine the success of blinding. The full GMFM-66 score is obtained from the GMFM-66 Ability Estimator, and the dimension scores for standing and walking/running/jumping are estimated using the formula: (total scores obtained in the dimension) ⋅ 100/total score possible.

The secondary effect measures were kinematics of walking, full-mean solar day step counts, motor evoked potentials (MEPs), and patellar tendon reflex.

Kinematics of walking

Walking is measured on a treadmill to arrange children who are non walking independently. A custom-built table for toys in front of the kid, and a forearm support for the experimenter supporting the kid, are shown in Figure three. A custom-built split-belt treadmill, with a strength plate under each belt, is used in Edmonton. A commercially bachelor treadmill (TR1200B; LifeSpan, Table salt Lake City, UT) without force plates is used in Calgary. Walking movements are quantified either with the three-D Investigator (NDI, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) in Edmonton or with the Motion Analysis Organization using 12 Hawkeye-4 cameras (Santa Rosa, CA) in Calgary. Marker positions are standardized: top of the iliac crest, greater trochanter, knee line, lateral malleolus, and head of the 5^th metatarsal, bilaterally. Customized MatLab script calculates step length (altitude between the ankle markers in the direction of progression), toe clearance (maximum vertical height of the toe marker during the swing phase), and weight back up (vertical force during opinion phase—available in Edmonton simply). Since children with unilateral stroke walk asymmetrically, we quantified the degree of symmetry in each of the above measures using the following formula: |afflicted leg score – unaffected leg score |(afflicted leg score + unaffected leg score).

Figure 3.

Testing and training using a treadmill. The child walks on a treadmill with toys on a table within easy attain and a platform to support the therapist'south forearms. The therapist provides support every bit needed and is in a position to preclude falls.

Figure 3.

Testing and training using a treadmill. The kid walks on a treadmill with toys on a table inside easy attain and a platform to support the therapist's forearms. The therapist provides back up as needed and is in a position to prevent falls.

Participation: full-solar day footstep counts

Our surrogate measure for participation (as defined by the World Health Arrangement) is estimated with full-twenty-four hour period footstep counts. Parents place step counters on the child for the waking hours of 6 full days. Pace counts are taken at the beginning, middle, and end of each study period (ie, filibuster, training, and follow-up). Counts are averaged over the 6 days.

Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs)

Motor evoked potentials induced past TMS are recorded in leg muscles to determine if there are preparation-induced changes to the strength of the CST. We have successfully obtained responses in children as young as 8 months old. ⁴⁶ Surface electromyographic (EMG) electrodes (Kendall Pediatric H59P electrodes; Medtronics, Saint Laurent, Quebec, Canada) are applied to the quadriceps, hamstrings, tibialis anterior, and gastroc-soleus muscle groups, bilaterally. A double-cone curl (outside diameter 125 mm) is positioned over the leg motor cortex, that is, at the vertex in the anteroposterior direction and two cm lateral to the midline. The curl is positioned manually for each trial. Two Magstim 200 stimulators continued to a Bistim module (Magstim, Dyfed, United kingdom) are used to deliver a pair of TMS pulses (interpulse interval of 10 ms, 80% maximum stimulator output). Background contraction is essential to evoke MEPs at this age, then measures are taken with the child standing. Trials are repeated ii–v times on both the right and left motor cortex. Children play during the testing, and the majority are unconcerned well-nigh the TMS. If a child objects to the TMS, the testing is discontinued. The MEPs are analyzed offline to identify the responses, latencies, and magnitudes.

Patellar tendon reflexes

Tendon reflexes are typically asymmetric in children with hemiplegia, with overflow of the reflex to other muscles in the affected limb, thought to reflect persistent, exuberant afferent projections seen in infancy. ^47,48 We wondered if our intervention would alter reflex overflow. In the aforementioned session as the TMS experiment, stretch reflexes are induced mechanically with a handheld, reflex hammer fabricated from a force transducer. Reflexes are elicited past tapping the patellar tendon of each leg in turn, and recorded with surface EMG from the same muscle groups as higher up. Reflex overflow (ie, reflexes induced in the untapped muscles) is compared between taps to the affected and unaffected sides, later matching the size of the quadriceps reflex EMG on both sides.

Data Management and Statistical Analysis

Information is stored and managed in Edmonton. Analyses are done by research assistants, trained in Edmonton. Statistical analysis will be assisted by a biostatistician. Change scores over the 3-month study periods will be calculated for each measure out. Carve up 2-sample, two-sided t tests will be used to compare the Immediate with the Delay Group, and the Firsthand and Parent Train groups. For each event, multiple linear regression models will be developed to appraise the result of historic period at fourth dimension of intervention and type of stroke (ie, venous vs arterial stroke) for the Immediate, Delay, and Parent Train groups separately. Model fit will be examined, and estimates will be provided with 95% CIs.

Trial Monitoring

A monitoring committee is not used because of the small size of the project and the low risk of the experiments. The researchers are responsible for reporting changes to protocol and adverse events to the Enquiry Ethics Lath 3, University of Alberta, which approved this study. Yearly renewals of the protocol are monitored by this Board.

Limitations

The severity of the stroke, and the child'south willingness to participate in activities, volition differ. This tin be partly accounted for by baseline scores (severity) and step counts during grooming (participation in training). Variability in the grooming and assessments betwixt therapists is minimized through training of therapists and frequent communication (see Treatment Fidelity and Principal Outcome mensurate).

Discussion

The intervention in this study is based on the neuroscience that activity drives the developing motor organisation. The focus on early, intensive, child-initiated activity contrasts with current practise, which is typically passive and delivered after (come across Introduction). This study runs in parallel with several other studies on early, motor-based intervention for CP, largely for the upper limb. ^49–51 Results from these heady trials could change physical therapy practice for young children at risk of developing CP. Finally, if parents' training at dwelling house is equally effective, they could help deliver and/or reinforce training, thereby maximizing intervention outcome.

Author Contributions and Acknowledgments

Concept/idea/research design: C. Hurd, E. Zewdie, M.A. Gorassini, A. Kirton, M-J. Watt, J. Andersen, J.F. Yang

Writing: C. Hurd, A. Kirton, Grand-J. Watt, J. Yager, J.F. Yang

Information drove: C. Hurd, D. Livingstone, K. Brunton, M. Teves, E. Zewdie, A. Smith, P. Ciechanski, M.A. Gorassini, A. Kirton, J.F. Yang

Data analysis: C. Hurd, D. Livingstone, K. Brunton, One thousand. Teves, E. Zewdie, A. Smith, A. Kirton, J.F. Yang

Project management: D. Livingstone, K. Brunton, East. Zewdie, J.F. Yang

Fund procurement: One thousand-J. Watt, J.F. Yang

Providing participants: A. Kirton, Thou-J. Watt, J. Andersen, J. Yager

Providing facilities/equipment: M.A. Gorassini, A. Kirton, J.F. Yang

Providing institutional liaisons: A. Kirton, Yard-J. Watt, J. Andersen, J. Yager, J.F. Yang

Clerical/secretarial support: M. Teves

Consultation (including review of manuscript before submitting): D. Livingstone, Chiliad. Teves, E. Zewdie, A. Smith, C. Ciechanski, M.A. Gorassini, A. Kirton, Thousand-J. Watt, J. Andersen, J. Yager, J.F. Yang

Dr Kirton, Dr Watt, Dr Andersen, and Dr Yager are Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.

The authors thank Lindsay Tranter for assisting with the Parent Training Manual and Andre Bobet for optimizing the photographs.

Ideals Approving

Ethics approval was granted past the Academy of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Research Ideals Lath 3–Wellness Research Ethics Board–Health Panel: Pro00032297.

Funding Support

Funding back up for this report was provided by Alberta Innovates–Health Solutions, Collaborative Enquiry and Innovation Opportunities, Project Grant, Record #201200830; Canadian Institutes of Health Inquiry (MOP-126107); and Women and Children's Health Research Plant, Bridging Funds 2011–2012.

Disclosures

The authors completed the ICJME Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Besides the federal, provincial, and institutional funding that they received, the authors report no conflicts of interest.

Clinical Trial Registration

This report was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01773369).

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