Exploratory study on the effects of a robotic hand rehabilitation device on changes in grip strength and brain activity after stroke

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 308-316

  Pinter, Daniela ^a   Pegritz, Sandra ^a   Pargfrieder, Christa ^a   Reiter, Gudrun ^a   Wurm, Walter ^a   Gattringer, Thomas ^a   Linderl Madrutter, Regina ^b   Neuper, Claudia ^a   Fazekas, Franz ^a   Grieshofer, Peter ^b   Enzinger, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Klinik Judendorf Strassengel   (Austria)

Author keywords

functional MRI; motor recovery; robotic devices; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTRICITY INDEX; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RATING SCALE; REHABILITATION CARE; ROBOTIC FINGER HAND REHABILITATION TRAINING; ROBOTICS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STROKE PATIENT; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROBOTICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STROKE;

EID: 84881123990     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/tsr2004-308     Document Type: Article

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