Background In people who have had a stroke, upper limb paresis affects many activities of
daily life. Reducing disability is therefore a major aim of rehabilitative interventions. Despite …

INTRODUCTION: In the recent literature we can find many articles dealing with upper
extremity rehabilitation in stroke patients. New techniques, still under evaluation, are …

Background and Purpose—Mental practice (MP) of a particular motor skill has repeatedly
been shown to activate the same musculature and neural areas as physical practice of the …

Background and Purpose. This randomized controlled trial tests the efficacy of bilateral arm
training with rhythmic auditory cueing (BATRAC) versus dose-matched therapeutic …

Background. Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) has proven effective in
increasing functional use of the affected arm in patients with chronic stroke. The mechanism …

Background and purpose. Mental practice (MP), which involves cognitive rehearsal of
physical movements, is a noninvasive, inexpensive method of enabling repetitive, task …

Background Aphasia affects 1/3 of stroke patients with improvements noted only in some of
them. The goal of this exploratory study was to provide preliminary evidence regarding …

Purpose: This pilot double-blind sham-controlled randomized trial aimed to determine if the
addition of anodal tDCS on the affected hemisphere or cathodal tDCS on unaffected …

Recent years have seen a proliferation of animal and human studies that have associated
significant changes in regional brain physiology with sustained altered environmental or …

Background Stroke-related disability is a major problem at individual and socio-economic
levels. Neuromotor rehabilitation has a key role for its dual action on affected body segment …