Thursday, March 26, 2020

Survivors of chronic stroke experience continued impairment of dexterity but not strength in the nonparetic upper limb

I got nothing useful out of this, generic blathering. 

Survivors of chronic stroke experience continued impairment of dexterity but not strength in the nonparetic upper limb

Archives of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationBarry AJ, et al. | March 25, 2020

Researchers assessed the performance of the less affected upper limb among individuals with stroke relative to normative values. They evaluated less affected upper limb function among those whose prestroke dominant limb became paretic and those whose prestroke nondominant limb became paretic in this cohort analysis of survivors of chronic stroke (7.2 ± 6.7y post incident). Even years post-stroke, significant upper extremity impairment in the nominally nonparetic limb was identified among survivors of stroke with severe impairment of the paretic limb, irrespective of whether the dominant hand or nondominant hand was primarily affected. Since this group of survivors of stroke particularly rely on the nonparetic limb for performing functional tasks, targeting the nonparetic upper limb for rehabilitation was recommended.(Useless, we need specifics, not this generic crapola.)
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