With no protocols listed and my inability to visualize how this could work. You'll just have to hope that in 15 years your doctor actually competently got those protocols from the researcher. When hell freezes over in Dante's ninth level then maybe your doctor will do something about getting you recovered.
Mirror Therapy Enhances Lower-Extremity Motor Recovery and Motor Functioning After Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2007, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Mirror Therapy Enhances Lower-Extremity Motor Recoveryand Motor Functioning After Stroke: A RandomizedControlled Trial
Serap Sütbeyaz, MD, Gunes Yavuzer, MD, PhD, Nebahat Sezer, MD, B. Füsun Koseoglu, MD
Sütbeyaz S, Yavuzer G, Sezer N, Koseoglu F.Mirror therapy enhances lower-extremity motor recovery andmotor functioning after stroke: a randomized controlled trial.Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2007;88:555-9.
Serap Sütbeyaz, MD, Gunes Yavuzer, MD, PhD, Nebahat Sezer, MD, B. Füsun Koseoglu, MD
Sütbeyaz S, Yavuzer G, Sezer N, Koseoglu F.Mirror therapy enhances lower-extremity motor recovery andmotor functioning after stroke: a randomized controlled trial.Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2007;88:555-9.
ABSTRACT.
Objective:To evaluate the effects of mirror therapy, using motor imagery training, on lower-extremity motor recovery and motor functioning of patients with subacute stroke.
Design:
Randomized, controlled, assessor-blinded, 4-week trial, with follow-up at 6 months.
Setting:
Rehabilitation education and research hospital.
Participants:
A total of 40 inpatients with stroke (mean age,63.5y), all within 12 months post stroke and without volitional ankle dorsiflexion.
Interventions:
Thirty minutes per day of the mirror therapy program, consisting of nonparetic ankle dorsiflexion movements or sham therapy, in addition to a conventional stroke rehabilitation program, 5 days a week, 2 to 5 hours a day, for 4 weeks.
Main Outcome Measures:
The Brunnstrom stages of motor recovery, spasticity assessed by the Modified Ashworth Scale(MAS), walking ability (Functional Ambulation Categories[FAC]), and motor functioning (motor items of the FIM instrument).
Results:
The mean change score and 95% confidence inter-val (CI) of the Brunnstrom stages (mean, 1.7; 95% CI, 1.2–2.1;vs mean, 0.8; 95% CI, 0.5–1.2;
P
.002), as well as the FIMmotor score (mean, 21.4; 95% CI, 18.2–24.7; vs mean, 12.5;95% CI, 9.6–14.8;
P
.001) showed significantly more im-provement at follow-up in the mirror group compared with thecontrol group. Neither MAS (mean, 0.8; 95% CI, 0.4–1.2; vsmean, 0.3; 95% CI, 0.1–0.7;
P
.102) nor FAC (mean, 1.7;95% CI, 1.2–2.1; vs mean, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.1–1.9;
P
.610)showed a significant difference between the groups.
Conclusions:
Mirror therapy combined with a conventional stroke rehabilitation program enhances lower-extremity motor recovery and motor functioning in subacute stroke patients.
Key Words:
Cerebrovascular accident; Feedback; Imagery;Motor skills; Rehabilitation.©
2007 by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medi-cine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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