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S Blanton, PT, is Staff Physical Therapist, Physical Therapy Department, Emory Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, 1441 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322 (USA) (sarah_blanton{at}emory.org). Address all correspondence to Ms Blanton
SL Wolf, PhD, PT, FAPTA, is Professor and Director of Research, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, and Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga
Background and Purpose. The purpose of this case report is to demonstrate the application of constraint-induced movement therapy with an individual with upper-extremity hemiparesis within 4 months after sustaining a cerebrovascular accident (stroke). Such patients often fail to develop full potential use of their affected upper extremity, perhaps due to a "learned nonuse phenomenon." Case Description. The patient was a 61-year-old woman with right-sided hemiparesis resulting from an ischemic lacunar infarct in the posterior limb of the left internal capsule. The patient's less-involved hand was constrained in a mitten so that she could not use the hand during waking hours, except for bathing and toileting. On each weekday of the 14-day intervention period, the patient spent 6 hours being supervised while performing tasks using the paretic upper extremity. Pretreatment, posttreatment, and 3-month follow-up outcome measures included the Wolf Motor Function Test and the Motor Activity Log (MAL). Outcomes. For the Wolf Motor FunctionTest, both the mean and median times to complete 16 tasks improved from pretreatment to posttreatment and from posttreatment to follow-up. Results of the MAL indicated an improved self-report of both "how well" and "how much" the patient used her affected limb in 30 specified daily tasks. These improvements persisted to the follow-up. Discussion. Two weeks of constraining the unaffected limb, coupled with practice of functional movements of the impaired limb, may be an effective method for restoring motor function within a few months after cerebral insult. Encouraging improvements such as these strongly suggest the need for a group design that would explore this type of intervention in more detail.
Key Words: Constraint-induced movement therapy • Learned nonuse • Physical therapy • Rehabilitation • Stroke
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