Effects of Trunk Exercise on Unstable Surfaces in Persons with Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Background: Improving balance-related ability is an important goal in stroke rehabilitation. Evidence is needed to demonstrate how this goal could be better achieved. Aim: Determine if trunk exercises on unstable surfaces would improve trunk control and balance for persons in the subacute stage of stroke. Design: An assessor-blind randomized controlled trial. Setting: Inpatients in the department of rehabilitation in a general hospital. Population: Patients who suffered a first-time stroke with onset from one to six months. Methods: Inpatients with stroke were assigned to upper limb exercises (control group, n = 17) or trunk exercises on unstable surfaces (experimental group, n = 18) to receive training twice a week for six weeks, in addition to their daily conventional stroke rehabilitati

SUBMITTER: Lee PY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7730209 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature