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Day Program for Patients with Brain Injury with Constraint Induced Movement Therapy for Upper and Lower Limbs

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III (ICNR 2018)

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Abstract

CIMT (Constraint Induced movement Therapy) is based on two basic principles. Forced used of the affected extremity by restraining the unaffected extremity and massed practice of the affected extremity. We have introduced special day program with CIMT for people after brain injuries on our department.

Method: 16 patients with hemiparesis due to brain injury were involved in program with lower limbs (Group A) and 16 patients in program with upper limbs (Group B). They had good cognitive functions to understand and follow the tasks. They had activities using CIMT principles for 6 h a day for four weeks (from Monday to Friday). The evaluation of the effect was done using standardised functional.

Results: The results are very promising. 14 patients in each group finished the programme, almost all of them were much better after the programme, 85% were better even after three and six months after finishing it.

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, General University Hospital in Prague and 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Yvona Angerova, Petra Sladkova & Olga Svestkova

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lorenzo Masia

  2. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Translational Neural Engineering Area, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Silvestro Micera

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, TX, USA

    Metin Akay

  4. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José L. Pons

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Angerova, Y., Sladkova, P., Svestkova, O. (2019). Day Program for Patients with Brain Injury with Constraint Induced Movement Therapy for Upper and Lower Limbs. In: Masia, L., Micera, S., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III. ICNR 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_172

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