Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
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Neurorehabil Neural Repair · Mar 2015
Randomized Controlled TrialUnilateral and bilateral upper-limb training interventions after stroke have similar effects on bimanual coupling strength.
Bilateral training in poststroke upper-limb rehabilitation is based on the premise that simultaneous movements of the nonparetic upper limb facilitate performance and recovery of paretic upper-limb function through neural coupling effects. ⋯ The degree of coupling between both hands was not significantly higher after bilateral than after unilateral training and control treatment. Although improvements in movement harmonicity and amplitude following mBATRAC may indicate a beneficial influence of the interlimb coupling, those effects were more likely due to the particular type of limb movements employed during this training protocol.