Posts Tagged ‘stroke’
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.
stroke patients regain use of limbs
De Antoniis, 72, said after just five sessions he is getting some feeling back for the first time in years. Mirror therapy helps stroke patients regain use of limbs read more... Mirror therapy helps stroke patients regain use of limbs Live ... New mirror therapy is helping stroke patients return feeling and movement to paralyzed [...]
Ramachandran on ‘Unlearning’ Pain
Mirror Box Therapy... is now widely accepted — not just for phantom limb pain, but for chronic pain of other types — and works in 70% to 80% of appropriate cases. Mind Reading: Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran on 'Unlearning' Pain In the 1990s, Dr. Ramachandran devised mirror therapy to help amputees suffering from phantom limb pain [...]
Effect of Mirror Therapy on Recovery of Upper – KoreaMed – Basic …
METHOD: Fourty subacute hemiplegic stroke patients (onset <6 months) were enrolled and randomly assigned to either the mirror therapy (MT, n=19), ... www.koreamed.org/SearchBasic.php?RID=0041JKARM/... Abstract OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of mirror therapy on recovery of upper limb function and strength in subacute hemiplegia after [...]
Phantom Pain & Perception – Lloyd Johnson
showing dramatic success...Researchers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center recently published the results of a randomized trial of mirror therapy for soldiers with phantom-limb pain, . .. Lloyd Johnson - http://www.lloydy.id.au/blog/
AMPUTEE NEWS, PHOTOS, VIDEOS
Great blog take a look http://www.talbronsteinblog.net/ Watch the video showing mirror box therapy. Some great ideas for exercises that can be done than using mirror box therapy for treating phantom limb pain, as will as stroke rehabilitation.
Mirror box therapy on hit TV show house
Mirror Therapy was used in the hit TV show HOUSE, with dramatic results. This is not a camera or mirror trick it can really produce this kind of result. For those who missed it watch it now but be quick it was remove for the net the last time due to copy right law.
Stroke rehab at home with Mirror Box Therapy
Take your stroke rehabilitation home, with a folding mirror box. Buy online at www.reflexpainmanagement.com . Reflex now have a new checkout, you can now checkout without opening an account for a faster shopping experience.
mirror therapy…is more effective…stroke rehabilitation
mirror therapy combined with standard therapy is more effective than standard therapy alone for improving motor recovery: - http://strokengine.ca/index.php?page=topic&subpage=indepth&id=49&status=81&sid=68 This study of Mirror Box Therapy investigated the effect of mirror therapy on motor recovery, spasticity and hand related [...]