Current knowledge on selected rehabilitative methods used in post-stroke recovery
Journal Title: Rehabilitacja Medyczna - Year 2017, Vol 21, Issue 3
Abstract
Understanding brain plasticity after stroke is important in developing rehabilitation strategies. Active movement therapies show considerable promise but their individual application is still not fully implemented. Among the analysed, available therapeutic modalities, some became widely used in therapeutic practice. Thus, we selected three relatively new methods, i.e. mirror therapy, motor imagery and constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT). Mirror therapy was initially used in the treatment of phantom pain in patients with amputated limbs and later, in stroke patients. Motor imagery is widely used in sport to improve performance, which raises the possibility of applying it both as a rehabilitative method and in accessing the motor network independently of recovery. Whereas CIMT is based on the paradigm that impairment of arm function is exacerbated by learned non-use and that this, in turn, leads to loss of cortical representation in the upper limb.<br/><br/>
Authors and Affiliations
Pawel Kiper, Aneta Pirowska, Joanna Stożek, Alfonc Baba, Michela Agostini, Andrea Turolla
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