Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Mirror Therapy for Improving Motor Function After Stroke

You are going to have to get your doctor/therapist to interpret to derive some sort of stroke protocol from this. Acute vs. chronic; one movement vs. multiple, frequency, speed. Good luck with that. Or ask your stroke association which should have copies of all stroke protocols. But once again they will fail you.
This is the full article so ask your therapist for help.
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/44/1/e1.full
One paragraph here;

Implications for Practice

This review indicates that mirror therapy could be applied at least as an additional intervention in the rehabilitation of patients after stroke, but no clear conclusion can be drawn if mirror therapy should replace other interventions for improving motor function. Furthermore, mirror therapy may improve activities of daily living, but the results must be interpreted with caution because they are based on only four studies. For patients with a complex regional pain syndrome following stroke, mirror therapy seems to be an effective intervention, both for improving motor function and reducing pain. Mirror therapy seems not to influence pain in unselected stroke patients.(And what the hell does that mean?)

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