Management of adult stroke rehabilitation care: a clinical practice guideline

PW Duncan, R Zorowitz, B Bates, JY Choi, JJ Glasberg… - stroke, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States. 1 The Veterans Health
Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that 15 000 …

Home versus center based physical activity programs in older adults

NL Ashworth, KE Chad, EL Harrison… - Cochrane database …, 2005 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Physical inactivity is a leading cause of preventable death and morbidity in
developed countries. In addition physical activity can potentially be an effective treatment for …

Computerized arm training improves the motor control of the severely affected arm after stroke: a single-blinded randomized trial in two centers

S Hesse, C Werner, M Pohl, S Rueckriem, J Mehrholz… - Stroke, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—To compare a computerized arm trainer (AT), allowing repetitive
practice of passive and active bilateral forearm and wrist movement cycle, and …

The potential for utilizing the “mirror neurone system” to enhance recovery of the severely affected upper limb early after stroke: a review and hypothesis

VM Pomeroy, CA Clark, JSG Miller… - … and Neural Repair, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Recovery of upper limb movement control after stroke might be enhanced by repetitive goal-
directed functional activities. Providing such activity is challenging in the presence of severe …

Passive somatosensory discrimination tasks in healthy volunteers: differential networks involved in familiar versus unfamiliar shape and length discrimination

A Van de Winckel, S Sunaert, N Wenderoth, R Peeters… - Neuroimage, 2005 - Elsevier
Somatosensory discrimination of unseen objects relies on processing of proprioceptive and
tactile information to detect spatial features, such as shape or length, as acquired by …

Effect of robot-mediated therapy on upper extremity dysfunction post-stroke—a single case study

S Coote, EK Stokes - Physiotherapy, 2005 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: Studies of neuroplasticity suggest that repetitious movements optimise
changes at brain level, and that this response is optimised if the task is challenging and …

[PDF][PDF] AHA/ASA-Endorsed Practice Guidelines

JY Choi, JJ Glasberg, GD Graham, RC Katz… - Stroke, 2005 - researchgate.net
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States. 1 The Veterans Health
Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that 15 000 …