Patient nonadherence with therapy is a major barrier to rehabilitation. Recovery is often
limited and requires prolonged, intensive rehabilitation that is time-consuming, expensive …

Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States. 1 The Veterans Health
Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that 15 000 …

ContextSingle-site studies suggest that a 2-week program of constraint-induced movement
therapy (CIMT) for patients more than 1 year after stroke who maintain some hand and wrist …

A patient with the neglect syndrome fails to report, or to respond or orient to, novel or
meaningful stimuli presented to the side opposite a brain lesion.'The definition does not …

Background In people who have had a stroke, upper limb paresis affects many activities of
daily life. Reducing disability is therefore a major aim of rehabilitative interventions. Despite …

A new family of rehabilitation techniques, termed Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy or
CI Therapy, has been developed that controlled experiments have shown is effective in …

The definitive work on occupational therapy for physical dysfunction returns in its Sixth
Edition, with reputable co-editors and clinical, academic, and consumer contributors. This …

Recent discoveries about how the central nervous system responds to injury and how
patients reacquire lost behaviours by training have yielded promising new therapies for …

Neuronal connections and cortical maps are continuously remodeled by our experience.
Knowledge of the potential capabilityof the brain to compensate for lesions is a prerequisite …

Morris DM, Uswatte G, Crago JE, Cook EW III, Taub E. The reliability of the Wolf Motor
Function Test for assessing upper extremity function after stroke. Arch Phys Med Rehabil …