Investigation of how accurately individuals with hemiparetic stroke can mirror their forearm positions.

ABSTRACT: Current literature suggests that greater than 50% of survivors of a stroke cannot accurately perceive where their upper extremity is positioned. Our recent work demonstrates that the extent to which this perception is affected can depend on how the task is performed. For example, individuals with stroke who have a deficit in mirroring the position of their passively-placed paretic forearm during a between-arms task may accurately reproduce the position of their actively-controlled paretic forearm during a single-arm task. Moreover, the ability of individuals with various types of unilateral lesions to locate their thumb can depend on whether they reach for their paretic thumb or non-paretic thumb. Consequently, we investigated to what extent the accuracy of individuals post-hemiparetic str

SUBMITTER: Gurari N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8087025 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature