Error-augmented bimanual therapy for stroke survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stroke recovery studies have shown the efficacy of bimanual training on upper limb functional recovery and others have shown the efficacy of feedback technology that augments error.

Objective

In a double-blinded randomized controlled study (N = 26), we evaluated the short-term effects of bilateral arm training to foster functional recovery of a hemiparetic arm, with half of our subjects unknowingly also receiving error augmentation (where errors were visually and haptically enhanced by a robot).

Methods

Twenty-six individuals with chronic stroke were randomly assigned to practice an equivalent amount of bimanual reaching either with or without error augmentation. Participants were instructed to coordinate both arms while reaching to two targets (one for eac

SUBMITTER: Abdollahi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8682915 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature