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Stroke rehabilitation

Stroke rehabilitation Disability and Rehabilitation, July 2006; 28(13 – 14): 813 – 814 INVITED COMMENTARY All of the papers in this special issue of Disability needed to identify promising stroke rehabilitation and Rehabilitation make a valuable contribution to interventions [13,14]. knowledge about stroke rehabilitation. Together A prime example of translational research is the they highlight the complexity of stroke rehabilitation. emergence of constraint-induced therapy (CIT) to For example: the potential of Social Cognition restore upper limb motor function after stroke. CIT Theory for enhancing therapeutic interventions [1], was developed from observations of learned non-use investigation of underlying mechanisms of physical in monkeys arising from somatosensory deafferenta- activity deficit [2,3], and, examination of the validity tion, through preliminary studies of the effects of of the concept of recovery plateau held by many CIT [15] to experimental studies which demon- rehabilitation practitioners [4]. Just these three strated that CIT produces beneficial brain plasticity examples illustrate the attention that therapists have as well as behavioural change [16]. RCTs have now to give to mind-body interactions of patients and their begun to test effectiveness [17]. own clinical reasoning [5]. When these considera- Not all translational research emerges from experi- tions are combined with those related http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Disability & Rehabilitation Taylor & Francis

Stroke rehabilitation

Pomeroy, Valerie M.
Disability & Rehabilitation , Volume 28 (13-14): 2 – Jan 1, 2006
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1464-5165
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Disability and Rehabilitation, July 2006; 28(13 – 14): 813 – 814 INVITED COMMENTARY All of the papers in this special issue of Disability needed to identify promising stroke rehabilitation and Rehabilitation make a valuable contribution to interventions [13,14]. knowledge about stroke rehabilitation. Together A prime example of translational research is the they highlight the complexity of stroke rehabilitation. emergence of constraint-induced therapy (CIT) to For example: the potential of Social Cognition restore upper limb motor function after stroke. CIT Theory for enhancing therapeutic interventions [1], was developed from observations of learned non-use investigation of underlying mechanisms of physical in monkeys arising from somatosensory deafferenta- activity deficit [2,3], and, examination of the validity tion, through preliminary studies of the effects of of the concept of recovery plateau held by many CIT [15] to experimental studies which demon- rehabilitation practitioners [4]. Just these three strated that CIT produces beneficial brain plasticity examples illustrate the attention that therapists have as well as behavioural change [16]. RCTs have now to give to mind-body interactions of patients and their begun to test effectiveness [17]. own clinical reasoning [5]. When these considera- Not all translational research emerges from experi- tions are combined with those related

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