Effect of Mental Practice on the Improvement of Function and Daily Activity Performance of the Upper Extremity in Patients With Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Mental Practice

“…The study's sole use of first person and kinesthetically based mental practice techniques may also be a minor shortfall and was certainly inconsistent with previous mental practice studies that this and other groups have conducted. (3) An additional study by Timmermans et al 34 provided either a regimen of therapy and mental practice or a control intervention of neurodevelopmental therapy only to 42 subjects with stroke who were 2 to 6 weeks poststroke. Although both groups showed UE motor changes on the FuglMeyer and Wolf Motor Function Test, the authors reported no differences between the 2 groups.…”

“…(4) Finally, Braun et al 35 randomly added mental practice to regular care in nursing homes in the Netherlands, with some of the measures that were administered focusing on UE motor function. As with the work by Timmermans et al, 34 all eligible subjects encountered at the facility and meeting study criteria were enrolled. Again, although nonstringent study criteria were applied (clinically diagnosed stroke occurring between…”

Role of Practice And Mental Imagery on Hand Function Improvement in Stroke Survivors

“…Of those articles, 2 were excluded because they were not completed studies Therefore, a total of nine articles were reviewed and classified according to the criteria described earlier. The results are summarized in Table 1 [1][2][3][4][5]. …”

Prática mental na recuperação do membro superior pós-acidente vascular encefálico – Revisão sistemática

“…No estudo de Timmermans et. al., 10 diz que em pacientes com AVE na fase subaguda, não houve benefício em adicionar a prática mental à terapia habitual e que estudos futuros devem explorar o potencial de maior intensidade de treinamento. Porém, Page et.…”