Posts Tagged ‘Limb Rehabilitation’
CRPS type 1 after a Stroke
This study shows a significant recovery of grip strength and hand movement of the paretic arm in chronic stroke patients after 2 weeks of intense mirror therapy program. www.rsds.org/pdfsall/Cacchio_etal.pdf
Alternative Treatment for Stroke
Mirror Therapy | Mental Movement Therapy The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehab also published a study in 2007, comparing the use of mirror therapy with traditional PT to a group that ... www.rehabafterstroke.com/mirror-therapy
Mirror Therapy Mental Movement Therapy
Mirror Therapy | Mental Movement Therapy The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehab also published a study in 2007, comparing the use of mirror therapy with traditional PT to a group that ... www.rehabafterstroke.com/mirror-therapy Mirror box therapy is use for stroke rehabilitation and CRPS as well as for rehab after an injury and surgery.
benefits from mirror therapy
Phantom Pain | Healthmad As a result many hospitals are doing case studies in mirror therapy. ... The benefits from mirror therapy can last for months and can be repeated at any ... healthmad.com/conditions-and-diseases/phantom-pain/
Video testimonial mirror therapy works
Mark constantino testifies mirror therapy works. Mark was reluctant to try mirror box therapy, but now testifies to its effects. Mark story start about 3 1/2 min in, but watch the whole video it also demonstrates a new thinking of mirror therapy for double amputee with the help of the physiotherapist.
Tricking the Brain to Feel No Pain: It’s Done with Mirrors
Tricking the Brain to Feel No Pain: It's Done with Mirrors - Video ... Amputees often suffer from phantom-limb pain -- feeling pain in a limb that is no longer there. An unusual therapy involving only a mirror is providing. Great video with new thinking on mirror box therapy. Mirror Box Therapy is usually used by Uni-lateral amputee, In this [...]
Rethinking stroke therapy
Until recently scientists thought that when a region of the brain was damaged, its function was lost forever. Stroke patients who couldn't use an injured arm were taught to dress and bathe with their good arm. But sophisticated imaging tests of the brain at work have since revealed that it can reorganize itself after injury so that when nerve [...]
Back to Basics
Here’s the NOVA episode about Dr. Ramachandran’s discovery of mirror therapy as a treatment for phantom limb pain. Incredibly fascinating episode, mirror therapy starts around 3:30 min but watch it all. This video is for everybody its an easy to understand video on how the brain works. Nova - Secrets Of The Mind Amazing neurological [...]
Information for Patients and Families
Mirror therapy is a specific therapy designed to strengthen arms and hands weakened by a stroke. In mirror therapy, we use movements of the stronger hand and arm to "trick our brain" into thinking that the weaker arm is moving. Researchers have shown that this "tricking of the brain" actually works... Read the full article at [...]
Mirror therapy used for stroke victims
NBC2 report on Mirror Box Therapy, watch this great video of 10 year stroke survivor regaining function in this lift arm and hand. "When we go away from the mirror, we're finding a ten to twenty percent increase in performance," says Dr. Jax.