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Arm ability: Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) – classifies severity of upper limb impairment: how children with cerebral palsy use their hands to handle objects in daily activities in the home, school, and community settings.
MACS Level I
Handles objects easily and successfully.
MACS Level II
Handles most objects but with somewhat reduced quality and/or speed of achievement.
MACS Level III
Handles objects with difficulty; needs help to prepare and/or modify activities.
MACS Level IV
Handles a limited selection of easily managed objects in adapted situations.
MACS Level V
Does not handle objects and has severely limited ability to perform even simple actions.
- Ankle foot orthoses for gross motor skills
- Behavioural interventions for children’s sleep problems
- Botulinum toxin-A for pain, care and comfort
- Botulinum toxin-A injections for the arm and hand combined with occupational therapy
- Cognitive behaviour therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety
- Cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic pain
- Communication Partner Training
- Conductive education (Interventions & Therapies)
- Constraint-induced movement therapy for the leg (CIMT-Leg)
- Early motor intervention
- Fitness training
- Gastrostomy feeding for children
- Goal directed training
- Home programs for children and adults
- Hydrotherapy for adolescents and adults
- Massage for pain and movement
- Powered mobility for young children
- Pressure cushions and tilt-in-space wheelchairs to prevent pressure areas
- Sleep positioning systems
- Solution focused brief therapy
- Speech generating devices for children with cerebral palsy
- Speech therapy for children with dysarthria
- Standing frames for children and adults
- Stepping Stones Triple P parenting program
- Texture modified food
- Treadmill training for people with cerebral palsy