 |
| Jeff Porter Stroke of Faith |
Stroke is the leading cause of permanent disability in the United States. So many people need physical, occupational and speech therapy to recover. I recently read about research that might lead to better tools to help stroke patients to recover.
This article describes how brain therapy helps rehabilitate stroke patients:
 |
| Photo from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health |
▶ The therapy alters specific areas of the brain that correlate with both the affected and unaffected hands. The activation of these areas of the brain appears to correspond to executed and imagined tasks of the affected hand, and may represent neuroplastic recovery.
▶ "Brain activity fed back to the patient is key for the therapy," explained Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, director of functional neuroimaging in radiology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
See the original article:
in
No comments:
Post a Comment