Interventions to improve physical function for children and young people with cerebral palsy: international clinical practice guideline.

Aim: To provide recommendations for interventions to improve physical function for children and young people with cerebral palsy.

Method: An expert panel prioritized questions and patient-important outcomes. Using Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methods, the panel assessed the certainty of evidence and made recommendations, with international expert and consumer consultation.

Task-specific training for bicycle-riding goals in ambulant children with cerebral palsy: a randomized controlled trial.

Aim: To determine whether a task-specific physiotherapist-led training approach is more effective than a non-specific parent-led home programme for attaining bicycle-riding goals in ambulant children with cerebral palsy (CP).

Method: Sixty-two ambulant children with CP aged 6 to 15 years (33 males, 29 females, mean age 9y 6mo) with bicycle-riding goals participated in this multi-centre, assessor-blind, parallel-group, superiority randomized controlled trial. Children in the task-specific group participated in a physiotherapist-led, group-based, intensive training programme.