Home-based hand rehabilitation after chronic stroke: Randomized, controlled single-blind trial comparing the music glove with a conventional exercise program

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 457-472

  Zondervan, Daniel K ^a   Friedman, Nizan ^a   Chang, Enoch ^a   Zhao, Xing ^a   Augsburger, Renee ^b   Reinkensmeyer, David J ^a   Cramer, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand impairment; Hand therapy; Home therapy; Motor activity log; Music therapy; Randomized controlled trial; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Task specific rehabilitation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HAND IMPAIRMENT; HAND THERAPY; HOME THERAPY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSIC THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ACTION RESEARCH; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GLOVE; HAND GRIP; HAND MALFORMATION; HOME REHABILITATION; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSIC GLOVE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPASTICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLOTHING; HAND; PROCEDURES; STROKE REHABILITATION;

ADULT; AGED; CLOTHING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION;

EID: 84982975986     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 19381352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2015.04.0057     Document Type: Article

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