In children with cerebral palsy and speech disorders, added Cortexin improved speech recovery compared with microcurrent reflexotherapy alone.
In plain wordsIn children with cerebral palsy and speech disorders, added Cortexin improved speech recovery more than microcurrent reflexotherapy alone.
- Outcome
- IncreaseSpeech function recovery
- Study
n = 78
- Comparator
- Microcurrent reflexotherapy alone
- Outcome group
- Speech and language · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · Two courses of 10 injections during a 6-month treatment programAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
An analysis of results of the complex treatment demonstrated its high efficacy in the recovery of speech functions in children with cerebral palsy compared to patients of the comparison group.
4 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Authors studied 78 outpatients with children cerebral palsy, aged from 2 to 7 years, in the children department of neurology and reflexotherapy.
The main group included 40 patients who received the treatment of MCRT in the combination with cortexin, the comparison group consisted of 38 patients who received only MCRT.
The treatment with cortexin included sessions of 10 injections each after the end of the first and the third MCRT sessions.
Patient state was measured at baseline and at the end of 6 month treatment program.