Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Mirror-box training in healthy subjects and a patient with hemiparesis

You'll have to send your doctor after the EXACT PROTOCOL used. Since our 

fucking failures of stroke associations  do not keep track of all stroke research and the protocols used in research you are completely on your own. 500,000+ US stroke survivors a year all looking for the same protocols on how to recover 100%. What a completely idiotic thing to do since we have NO stroke leadership.

The latest here:


Mirror-box training in healthy subjects and a patient with hemiparesis

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Objective

Mirror therapy (MT) is an approach of neurorehabilitation improving motor functions after stroke. MT represents a mental process by which an individual rehearses a given motor action by reflecting movements of the non-paretic side in a mirror as if it were the affected side. Although a number of small-scale research studies have shown encouraging results, there is no clear consensus about the effectiveness of the therapy. The aim of this study is to investigate objective changes in EEG after MT.

Methods

A set of seven healthy volunteers carried-out five mirror-box training sessions. The same training is carried-out twice a week with a patient with hemiparesis for more than six months. The eleven channels of EEG placed over the sensorimotor and left occipital cortex are recorded. In addition to the standard power spectral analysis of EEG we decompose EEG into elemental components or “atoms.” We estimate EEG atoms using multiway parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) for modeling.

Results

Compering resting EEG prior and after training we found statistically significant increase of the motor-related oscillatory μ-rhythm in a hemiparetic patient. Atomic decomposition of EEG shows stable spatio-frequency components of motor-related synchronization and desynchronization of EEG in a hemisphere contralateral to the mirror-box.


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