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Home Forced Use in an Outpatient Rehabilitation Program for Adults with Hemiplegia: A Pilot Study

Department of Research, Shriners Hospital for Children, 3551 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140. spierce{at}shrinenet.org

Kara G. Gallagher

Susan W. Schaumburg

Arthur M. Gershkoff

John P. Gaughan

Lori Shutter

The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a program of traditional outpatient neurological rehabilitation that included home forced use. In total, 17 patients with chronic stroke and 1 patient with subacute stroke (mean time poststroke = 27.6 months) completed an individualized program consisting of seven 2-hour treatment sessions composed of 1 hour of occupational therapy and 1 hour of physical therapy. Therapy sessions were completed over a 2- to 3-week period and included instruction on the use of a restraining mitt at home during functional activities. The Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) was used to assess upper extremity impairment and function at baseline, midway through treatment, and posttreatment. Patients demonstrated statistically significant improvements (P < 0.05 corrected for multiple comparisons) in mean time for completion in 12 of 17 WMFT subtasks when comparing baseline to posttreatment. The preliminary results suggest that the forced-use component of constraint-induced therapy may be effective when applied within a traditional outpatient rehabilitation program. However, additional investigation is required to examine the effectiveness of using forced use within typical outpatient rehabilitation under more experimentally controlled conditions.

Key Words: Rehabilitation • Arm • Cerebrovascular

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Vol. 17, No. 4, 214-219 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0888439003259424


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