Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Children With Cerebral Palsy

• Changes in Motor Performance [ Time Frame: Baseline - 1 month - 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  GMPM (Gross Motor Performance Measure) as a standardized measurement tool for assessing quality of movement regarding 3 properties of 5 ones; alignment, coordination, dissociated movement, stability, and weight shift (range: 0~100, Higher value means better motor quality). GMPM scores at each assessment time points will be reported.
  
  
• Changes in Standardized Gross Motor Function [ Time Frame: Baseline - 1 month - 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  GMFM (Gross Motor Function Measure) as a standardized measurement tool for assessing Gross Motor Function consisting of sub-scales; lying & rolling, sitting, crawling & kneeling, standing, walking, running & jumping (range: 0~100 , Higher value means better gross motor function). GMFM scores at each assessment time points will be reported.
  
  

• Changes in Cognitive Neurodevelopmental Outcome [ Time Frame: Baseline - 1 month - 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  Korean version of Bayley Scale of Infant Development-II (K-BSID-II) Mental Scales (higher value means better mental function: 0 - worst, 178 - best). K-BSID-II Mental Scale raw scores at each assessment time points will be reported.
  
  
• Changes in Motor Neurodevelopmental Outcome [ Time Frame: Baseline - 1 month - 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  Korean version of Bayley Scale of Infant Development-II (K-BSID-II) Motor Scales (higher value means better motor function: 0 - worst, 112 - best). K-BSID-II Motor Scale raw scores at each assessment time points will be reported.
  
  
• Changes in Functional Independence in Daily Activities [ Time Frame: Baseline - 1 month - 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  WeeFIM (Functional Independence Measure for Children) measures functional independence in daily activities. WeeFIM contains 18 items and each item is ranked from complete dependence (scored as 1) to complete independence (scored as 7). The range is from 18 to 126 and higher scores mean more independent performance in daily activities. Total WeeFIM scores measured at each assessment time points will be reported.
  
  
• Changes in Visual Perception Test [ Time Frame: Baseline - 1 month - 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  Visual perception function will be evaluated with one of three measures: DTVP (Developmental Test of Visual Perception), MVPT (Motor-free Visual Perception Test), and VMI (Visual-Motor Integration, Visual Perception and Motor Coordination). All can be scored as percentile rank from 0 to 100. Higher values mean better visual perception ability.
  
  
• Changes in Muscle Strength [ Time Frame: Baseline - 1 month - 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  Summation of MMT (manual muscle strength test score): summated scores of the manual muscle strength test (zero=0, trace=1, poor=2, fair=3, good=4, normal=5) for flexors, extensors, abductors, and adductors of bilateral shoulder and hip joints; flexors and extensors of bilateral elbow, wrist, and knee; dorsiflexors and plantar flexors of the ankles (range: 0 ~ 160) Higher scores mean better muscle strength. Categories of outcome table will be summation of MMT scores measured at each assessment time point.
  
  
• Changes in Functional Performance in Daily Activities [ Time Frame: Baseline - 1 month - 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) for assessing functional performance in daily activities in children (All values are adjusted and higher value means better functional performance, 0 - worst, 100 - best). We will report 2 scales and 3 domains of each scale: a Functional Skill Scale (FSS) and a Caregiver Assistance Scale (CAS) which are divided respectively into 3 domains: self care, mobility, and social function. Categories of outcome table will be each domain scores measured at each assessment time point.
  
  

Cerebral palsy is a disorder of movement and posture resulted from a non-progressive lesion or injury of the immature brain. It is a leading cause of childhood onset disability.

Many experimental animal studies have revealed that umbilical cord blood is useful to repair neurological injury in brain.

On the basis of many experimental studies, umbilical cord blood is suggested as a potential therapy for cerebral palsy.