Bilateral priming before Wii-based movement therapy enhances upper limb rehabilitation and its retention after stroke: A case-controlled study

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 828-838

  Shiner, Christine T ^a   Byblow, Winston D ^b   McNulty, Penelope A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

brain priming; cortical excitability; interhemispheric inhibition; rehabilitation; upper limb

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PASSIVE BILATERAL PRIMING; ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUGL MEYER ASSESSMENT; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY LOG; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT THERAPY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION; REPETITION PRIMING; SPASTICITY; WII BASED MOVEMENT THERAPY; WOLF MOTOR FUNCTION TEST; WRIST; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINESIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECREATION; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908645276     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314523679     Document Type: Article

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