In this podcast, Editor in Chief of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Dr Peter Baxter, talks to Leanne Sakzewski (Postdoctorate Research Fellow, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) and Roslyn Boyd (Scientific Director of the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) about the paper they co-authored in the April issue of the journal ‘Randomized trial of constraint-induced movement therapy and bimanual training on activity outcomes for children with congenital hemiplegia’. This paper is also discussed with Andy Gordon (Professor of Movement Science, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) who has also written a commentary.