Integrated versus isolated training of the hemiparetic upper extremity in haptically rendered virtual environments

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2010

Abstract

This paper describes the preliminary results of an ongoing study of the effects of two training approaches on motor function and learning in persons with hemi paresis due to cerebrovascular accidents. Eighteen subjects with chronic stroke performed eight, three-hour sessions of sensorimotor training in haptically renedered environments. Eleven subjects performed training activities that integrated hand and arm movement while another seven subjects performed activities that trained the hand and arm with separately. As a whole, the eighteen subjects made statistically significant improvements in motor function as evidenced by robust improvements in Wolf Motor Function Test times and corresponding improvements in Jebsen Test of Hand Function times. There were no significant between group effects for these tests. However, the two training approaches elicited different patterns and magnitudes of performance improvement that suggest that they may elicit different types of change in motor learning and or control. © 2010 IEEE.

Identifier

78650842996 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781424441235]

Publication Title

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Embc 10

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627631

PubMed ID

21097011

First Page

2255

Last Page

2258

Grant

R01HD058301

Fund Ref

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

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