What is it about?
This article is about the amount of tasks/ shaping practice required for motor recovery in a child with upper limb motor impairment and shoulder pain following sub-acute stroke. In the article, 75 repetitions per day of various shaping practice provided opportunity for motor recovery without exacerbating the shoulder pain.
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Why is it important?
The article is important because clinicians need a simple, affordable and resource effective guide to the mechanisms of recovery after stroke.
Perspectives
This article may serve as a springboard for further discussion on the mechanisms for recovery after stroke. So far, it has elicited the use of more robust designs such as Randomized Controlled Trials to verify our findings.
Mr Auwal Abdullahi
Bayero University Kano
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This page is a summary of: Determination of Optimal Dose of Tasks Practice during Constraint Induced Movement in a Patient with Severe Shoulder Pain following Stroke: a Case Report, Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy - An International Journal, January 2015, Diva Enterprises Private Limited,
DOI: 10.5958/0973-5674.2015.00039.8.
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