Advance in Mirror Therapy for Motor Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients with Hemiplegia (review)
10.3969/j.issn.1006-9771.2018.06.008
- VernacularTitle:镜像疗法在脑卒中偏瘫患者运动康复中的研究进展
- Author:
Ying-Lun CHEN
1
;
Yu-Long BAI
Author Information
1. 复旦大学附属华山医院康复医学科
- Keywords:
stroke;
mirror therapy;
motor function;
rehabilitation;
review
- From:
Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice
2018;24(6):659-666
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Mirror therapy (MT), was first used for phantom limb pain, and afterwards used widely for stroke and peripheral nerve injury, etc. The mechanism of MT is obscure and various, mainly included mirror neuron system, visual feedback, facili-tation of motor pathways, and so on. A large quantity of researches claimed that training of unaffected limb activated ip-silateral cortex, changed conduction of pyramid tracts, and promote motor function recovery of affected limb, which cor-rected motor deficits and improved function of patients with hemiplegia (eg. finger movement and wrist flexion-exten-tion function).
