Enhancing touch sensibility by sensory retraining in a sensory discrimination task via haptic rendering.

ABSTRACT: Stroke survivors are commonly affected by somatosensory impairment, hampering their ability to interpret somatosensory information. Somatosensory information has been shown to critically support movement execution in healthy individuals and stroke survivors. Despite the detrimental effect of somatosensory impairments on performing activities of daily living, somatosensory training-in stark contrast to motor training-does not represent standard care in neurorehabilitation. Reasons for the neglected somatosensory treatment are the lack of high-quality research demonstrating the benefits of somatosensory interventions on stroke recovery, the unavailability of reliable quantitative assessments of sensorimotor deficits, and the labor-intensive nature of somatosensory training that relies on the

SUBMITTER: Villar Ortega E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9397824 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature