OBJECTIVE To determine whether motor imagery during the immobilization period after flexor tendon injury results in a faster recovery of central mechanisms of hand function. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Tertiary referral hospital. PARTICIPANTS Patients (N=28) after surgical flexor tendon repair were assigned to either an intervention group or a control group. INTERVENTION...

how to cite this article: gajewska e, sobieska m, samborski w. associations between manual abilities, gross motor function, epilepsy, and mental capacity in children with cerebral palsy. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):45-52. objective this study aimed to evaluate gross motor function and hand function in children with cerebral palsy to explore their association with epilepsy and mental c...

Hand function problems of hemiplegic C.P children are often associated with problems of motor control, sensibility and sensory processing and persistence of primitive grasp reflex. Past studies indicated that simple hand movements with hand splinting can facilitate hand function of children with CP by stimulating the redistribution of brain activity, which accompanies recovery of hand function,...

BACKGROUND A cross-sectional study was performed to describe the upper limb deformity and function in cerebral palsy patients and to determine the correlation of deformity, spasticity, motor control, and sensation to hand function in the said population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty patients satisfying our inclusion criteria underwent physical, sensory, and functional assessment using a stand...

In healthy volunteers, reduction of somatosensory input from one hand leads to rapid performance improvements in the other hand. Thus, it is possible that reduction of somatosensory input from the healthy hand can influence motor function in the paretic hand of chronic stroke patients with unilateral hand weakness. To test this hypothesis, we had 13 chronic stroke patients perform motor tasks w...

BACKGROUND In children, reaching emerges around four months of age, which is followed by rapid changes in hand function and concomitant changes in gross motor function, including the acquisition of independent sitting. Although there is a close functional relationship between these domains, to date they have been investigated separately. OBJECTIVE To investigate the longitudinal profile of ch...

Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is a physical rehabilitation regime that has been previously shown to improve motor function in chronic hemiparetic stroke patients. However, the neural mechanisms supporting rehabilitation-induced motor recovery are poorly understood. The goal of this study was to assess motor cortical reorganization after CIMT using functional magnetic resonance imag...

In healthy volunteers, reduction of somatosensory input from one hand leads to rapid performance improvements in the other hand. Thus, it is possible that reduction of somatosensory input from the healthy hand can influence motor function in the paretic hand of chronic stroke patients with unilateral hand weakness. To test this hypothesis, we had 13 chronic stroke patients perform motor tasks w...