Action Observation Therapy for Decreasing Impairments and Improving Functional Capabilities in Individuals with Acute to Subacute Stroke
Keywords:
Action Observation Therapy, Mirror Neurons, Motor Training, StrokeAbstract
Action observation therapy has been widely used in clinical practice over the past 10 years. It has been found that this training combined with functional training or rehabilitation
program could increase muscle strength or improve performance of activity daily of living in all stages of individuals with stroke. Also, this training is required a simple technique and can be recommended for individuals with stroke to continue practicing at home. However, individuals with stroke have the highest rate of recovery and improvement in the performance of activity of daily living only in the early stages of the disease. Therefore, training period during the acute to subacute phase is crucial. There is a limited number of the study which related to action observation training for these stages. Thus, further research is required to investigate with training indications, dose of training, long-term effects of training period of action observation training technique to implement into clinical practice.
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