Upper Limb Training Modalities in Patients With Stroke

Launched by UNIVERSITA DI VERONA · Jul 17, 2018

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This single-blind RCT with two parallel group was conducted according to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki, the guidelines for Good Clinical practice, and the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT).

Target population was chronic post-stroke patients who attend to the Neurorehabilitation Unit (AOUI Verona) where they were assessed for eligibility.

Who satisfied inclusion and exclusion criteria were randomly allocated in one of two groups, experimental group ad control group. Each patient, underwent BoNT injection in the paretic limb. The dose of BoNT injected into the...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • age \> 18 years;
• • diagnosis of ischemic or hemorrhagic first-ever stroke as documented by a computerized tomography scan or magnetic resonance imaging;
• • at least 6 months since stroke;
• • Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) score (shoulder and elbow) ≤ 3 and ≥1+;
• • BoNT injection within the previous 12 weeks of at least one of muscles of the affected upper limb;
• • Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score ≥24
• • Trunk Control Test score = 100/100.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • any type of rehabilitation intervention in the 3 months prior to recruitment;
• • bilateral cerebrovascular lesion;
• • severe neuropsychologic impairment (global aphasia, severe attention deficit or neglect);
• • concomitant orthopedic disorders.

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