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MondayWith One Arm Restrained, Stroke Patients Gain Use of the Other - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
READ MORE: "If a stroke patient has an impaired arm, constraining the working arm daily during a two-week rehabilitation program can significantly improve use of the contralateral arm.
Patients randomized to constraint-induced movement therapy 'showed large to very large' improvements in functional use of the affected arm compared with patients who received traditional rehabilitation therapy (P<0.0001), according to results reported in the April issue of Stroke, Journal of the American Heart Association. |
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