Southend Hospital's pioneering trials to help paralysed stroke victims

Why would they need to do a trial of mirror box therapy? Don't they read research that already has proven its usefulness?

1.  Mirror Therapy for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

2. Mirror Training The Mirror as the Element Connecting Both Hands to One Hemisphere

3. VS Ramachandran on your mind

4.  Mirror-box therapy: Rehabilitation of hemiparesis after stroke with a mirror
Altschuler EL, Wisdom SB, Stone L, Foster C, Galasko D, Llewellyn DME, Ramachandran V
The Lancet - Vol. 353, Issue 9169, 12 June 1999, Pages 2035-2036

5.   From March, 2012;

Mirror Therapy for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

6.   From may, 2012;

Mirror Training The Mirror as the Element Connecting Both Hands to One Hemisphere

7.    From Oct. 2012;

Upper extremity rehabilitation of stroke: Facilitation of corticospinal excitability using virtual mirror paradigm 

8.  From Nov. 2012;

Effects and Adherence of Mirror Therapy in People with Chronic Upper Limb Hemiparesis: A Preliminary Study

9.  From Dec. 2012;

Mirror Therapy for Improving Motor Function After Stroke

10.  From Feb. 2013;

Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Mirror Therapy in Training Upper Limb Hemiparesis after Stroke

11.  From May, 2013 in New Zealand;

Fooling brain into restoring hand use

12.  From July, 2013 in Germany;

Mirror therapy for improving motor function after stroke

13.  From Dec. 2013

Mirrored Feedback in Chronic Stroke Recruitment and Effective Connectivity of Ipsilesional Sensorimotor Networks

And the latest one:

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11255495.New_treatment_to_help_stroke_victims/