background hands burn was associated with significant functional disorders that severely affected patient’s quality of life. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of educational program based on exercise therapy on burned hand function. methods this experimental research was conducted in a period of ten months in 2010-2011 in mottahari hospital in tehran in iran. the sample included 6...

OBJECTIVE The inhibitory role of neuronal networks in motor recovery after stroke remains to be elucidated. We examined the influence of transcallosal inhibition and short intracortical inhibition on motor recovery after stroke. We also investigated the correlation between transcallosal inhibition and mirror activity. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS Thirty-eight chronic stroke pati...

OBJECTIVE Recent reports demonstrated that low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the unaffected hemisphere improved the affected hand function in chronic stroke patients. We investigated whether 1 Hz rTMS improved the motor learning of the affected hand in patients after stroke. DESIGN A double-blind study. PATIENTS Twenty patients with chronic subcortical s...

Skillful motor control of human is achieved by the appropriate motor commands generating from the central nerve system. Internal model in the cerebellum may have great contribution for realizing accurate motor control. In this paper, the model for human motor control on manual tracking to moving visual target was constructed based on the experimental data of the visual tracking test for three g...

Stroke is a leading cause of adult motor disability. Despite recent progress, recovery of motor function after stroke is usually incomplete. This double blind, Sham-controlled, crossover study was designed to test the hypothesis that non-invasive stimulation of the motor cortex could improve motor function in the paretic hand of patients with chronic stroke. Hand function was measured using the...

A causal relationship between physical activity such as walking and cognitive functions - particularly executive functions and memory - has been observed in elderly people with and without dementia. Executive functions play an important role in the (instrumental) activities of daily life [(I)ADL]. However, a close relationship has also been found between motor activity of the upper limb, partic...