Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities (HABIT-ILE) in adults with chronic stroke: protocol of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Stroke causes multiple deficits including motor, sensitive and cognitive impairments, affecting also individual's social participation and independence in activities of daily living (ADL) impacting their quality of life. It has been widely recommended to use goal-oriented interventions with a high amount of task-specific repetitions. These interventions are generally focused only on the upper or lower extremities separately, despite the impairments are observed at the whole-body level and ADL are both frequently bimanual and may require moving around. This highlights the need for interventions targeting both upper and lower extremities. This protocol presents the first adaptation of Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy Including Lower Extremities (HABIT-ILE) for adults

SUBMITTER: Ebner-Karestinos D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10106060 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature