Coremans, M.; Carmeli, E.; De Bauw, I.; Essers, B.; Lemmens, R.; Verheyden, G. Error Enhancement for Upper Limb Rehabilitation in the Chronic Phase after Stroke: A 5-Day Pre-Post Intervention Study. Sensors2024, 24, 471.
Coremans, M.; Carmeli, E.; De Bauw, I.; Essers, B.; Lemmens, R.; Verheyden, G. Error Enhancement for Upper Limb Rehabilitation in the Chronic Phase after Stroke: A 5-Day Pre-Post Intervention Study. Sensors 2024, 24, 471.
Coremans, M.; Carmeli, E.; De Bauw, I.; Essers, B.; Lemmens, R.; Verheyden, G. Error Enhancement for Upper Limb Rehabilitation in the Chronic Phase after Stroke: A 5-Day Pre-Post Intervention Study. Sensors2024, 24, 471.
Coremans, M.; Carmeli, E.; De Bauw, I.; Essers, B.; Lemmens, R.; Verheyden, G. Error Enhancement for Upper Limb Rehabilitation in the Chronic Phase after Stroke: A 5-Day Pre-Post Intervention Study. Sensors 2024, 24, 471.
Abstract
A large proportion of chronic stroke survivors still struggle with upper limb (UL) problems in daily activities. We investigated clinical outcomes and assessed the quality of movement before and after a 5-hour error-enhancement training. The pilot study had a pre-post intervention design, recruiting 22 patients in the chronic phase post-stroke with UL motor impairments. Patients received 1-hour robot treatment for five days. Patients were assessed at baseline and after training, collecting (1) clinical (UL Fugl-Meyer assessment (FMA-UE)), action research arm test (ARAT), motor assessment scale UL and tone), (2) patient-reported (hand subscale of the stroke impact scale, motor activity log (MAL), visual analogue scale of pain and tone) and (3) kinematic (KINARM, BKIN Technologies Ltd., Canada) outcome measures. Our analysis revealed significant improvements (median im-provement (Q1-Q3); p<0.05) in (1) FMA-UE (1.0 (0.8–3.0), p<0.001) and ARAT (2 (0.8–2.0), p<0.001); (2) MAL amount of use (0.1 (0.0–0.3), p<0.001) and MAL quality of use (0.1 (0.1–0.5), p<0.001); (3) KINARM-evaluated position sense ((-0.45 (-0.81–0.09), p=0.030) after training. These findings provide insight into kinematic, clinical, and self-reported improvements in UL functioning after five hours of error-enhancement UL training.
Public Health and Healthcare, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
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