Constraint-induced movement therapy: A method for harnessing neuroplasticity to treat motor disorders

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue , 2013, Pages 379-401

  Uswatte, Gitendra ^a   Taub, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Cerebral palsy; Constraint Induced Movement therapy; Hemiparesis; Multiple sclerosis; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury; Stroke; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONSTRAINT INDUCED THERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEAFFERENTATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FOCAL HAND DYSTONIA; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT THERAPY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SPEECH THERAPY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL REFLEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

APHASIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONSTRAINT-INDUCED MOVEMENT THERAPY; HEMIPARESIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REHABILITATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EXERCISE MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84888880339     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63327-9.00015-1     Document Type: Chapter

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