Motor imagery training improves precision of an upper limb movement in patients with hemiparesis

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 157-166

  Grabherr, Luzia ^a,b   Jola, Corinne ^c   Berra, Gilberto ^d   Theiler, Robert ^d   Mast, Fred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mental practice; physical therapy; rehabilitation; stroke

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; IMAGINATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER LIMB; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PARESIS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84931830708     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: 18786448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NRE-151203     Document Type: Article

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