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Repeat Therapy for Chronic Motor Stroke: A Pilot Study for Feasibility and Efficacy

Michel Rijntjes, MD*, Kerstin Haevernick, Anne Barzel, MD, Hendrik van den Bussche, MD, Gesche Ketels, and Cornelius Weiller, MD

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: michel.rijntjes{at}uniklinik-freiburg.de.


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Background. Therapeutic interventions improve outcomes in the acute and chronic phase after motor stroke, but a significant amount of this improvement is usually lost after more than 1 year. Patients might profit from a second course of intensive physiotherapy, but this has not been investigated. Objective. The feasibility and effect of a second phase of physiotherapy was examined 2 years after the first one. Methods. A total of 12 patients with chronic stroke were instructed to wear a constraining splint on the affected elbow and hand while awake for 4 weeks and practice individually tailored tasks 2 hours per day. Motor tests for assessment included the Motor Activity Log, Wolf Motor Function Test, and 9-Hole Peg Test. Results. In the 11 patients who were available for postintervention assessment, the deterioration in the amount and quality of movement that had occurred since the first therapy was largely recouped. Patients who wore the constraint more than 80% of waking hours during the second therapy showed a clear secondary improvement in all tests, in some surpassing the level reached after the first therapy. Conclusions. A repeated bout of home-based CIMT 2 years after initial training is feasible with relatively little time and effort provided by a therapist and can lead to further improvement.

First published on November 18, 2008, doi:10.1177/1545968308324226

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 2009;23:275.

A more recent version of this article appeared on March 1, 2009

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