Effectiveness of a multifactorial context-enhancing functional therapy to promote functional arm use and recovery of stroke survivors: study protocol for a clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

After a stroke, 55% of survivors do not regain the ability to completely use their arm in daily life functioning. Currently, evidence-based guidelines recommend functional training for improving the affected hand after stroke. However, promoting an optimal quantity and quality of functional training is influenced by personal and environmental contextual factors. Studies that comprehensively target multiple factors regulating arm use are limited. This study compares the effects of functional training to multifactorial context-enhancing functional training program for improving functional arm use and recovery after stroke.

Methods and analysis

This is a protocol for an observer-blinded, two parallel groups, randomised controlled trial. A total of 126 community-dwe

SUBMITTER: Rajagopalan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756450 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature