Clown-care reduces pain in children with cerebral palsy undergoing recurrent botulinum toxin injections- A quasi-randomized controlled crossover study.

OBJECTIVE:We investigated the impact of clown-care on pain in 45 children with cerebral palsy who underwent recurrent Botulinum-toxin injections (age 7.04± 4.68 years). Participants were randomized to receive either clown (n = 20) or standard (n = 25) -care. METHODS:Pain Visual-Analogue-Scale (range...

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Main Authors: Hilla Ben-Pazi, Avraham Cohen, Naama Kroyzer, Renana Lotem-Ophir, Yaakov Shvili, Gidon Winter, Lisa Deutsch, Yehuda Pollak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5393564?pdf=render