Remotely Monitored Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Children With Cerebral Palsy
This study will explore using remotely monitored 'active' non-invasive brain stimulation in children with cerebral palsy. Participants will receive active non-invasive brain stimulation with synchronous safety monitoring and guided instruction with laboratory staff after appropriate training. Participants will be between 8-21 years old and have a diagnosis of hemiparetic cerebral palsy with a history of a perinatal stroke or brain bleed, and can expect to be in the study for 5 days.
• Aged between 8 years 0 days and 21 years 365 days
• Children who have hemiparetic cerebral palsy with a history of perinatal brain bleed/stroke
• Receptive language function to follow two-step commands
• Able to give informed assent along with the informed consent of the legal guardian. If the participant is 18-21 (with the capacity to consent), they must be able to give informed consent.
• Intentional about representing the sub-population of children with CP who experience intellectual disability (at least 2/10 participants with mild intellectual disabilities will be recruited)
• ≥ 10 degrees of active motion at the metacarpophalangeal joint
• Children who have had surgeries, which may influence motor function e.g.- tendon transfer, will be included, yet surgical history will be documented and included in any publication within a participant characteristics table.