Game Motivated and Constraint Induced Therapy in Late Stroke with fMRI Studies Pre and Post Therapy

Author

Azpiroz, Joaquin ; Barrios, Fernando A. ; Carrillo, Marisela ; Carrillo, Roger ; Cerrato, Alfonso ; Hernandez, Jorge ; Leder, Ron S. ; Rodríguez, Alfredo O. ; Salgado, Perla

Author_Institution

Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City

fYear

2005

fDate

6/27/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

3695

Lastpage

3698

Abstract

20 patients with stroke more than one year earlier were evaluated, admitted to a novel therapy including constraint-induced and computer game-motivated therapy. Statistically significant improvements after 4 weeks of late therapy were seen in all 20 patients on nine out of eleven quantified clinical evaluation scales. The patients looked forward to and enjoyed the therapy. These same late stroke patients were studied via fMRI BOLD immediately before therapy and post therapy. fMRI BOLD studies confirm brain functional reorganization; 3 of the 20 fMRI cases are presented here. We propose that fMRI can help in the process of designing effective stroke therapy programs based on biological principles of brain plasticity

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical MRI; blood; brain; computer games; medical computing; patient rehabilitation; plasticity; statistical analysis; 4 week; brain functional reorganization; brain plasticity; computer game-motivated therapy; constraint induced therapy; effective stroke therapy programs; fMRI BOLD; late stroke; Elbow; Fingers; Image resolution; Magnetic heads; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical treatment; Psychology; Scanning probe microscopy; Shoulder; Tellurium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617284

Filename

1617284