Mental Practice for Patients with Motor Sequelae After Stroke
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https://doi.org/10.34024/rnc.2011.v19.8354Keywords:
Stroke, Mental Practice, Rehabilitation, Physical TherapyAbstract
Stroke is an incapacitating disease of elevated incidence in adults, and represents a public health problem in many countries. Amongst the many therapeutic approaches available nowadays for physical therapeutic intervention, mental practice has been pointed as a method for acquisition and improvement of motor abilities. Method. Literature review during the period of August and September 2009. Were included scientific articles published from 1966 to 2009 found in PUBMED, EMBASE and SCIELO databases, with the following keywords: stroke, rehabilitation, mental practice, acidente vascular cerebral, reabilitação, prática mental, and others found by manual searching of the references cited in the articles found. Results. Twenty one articles were found, from which six were excluded. The average age of the participants was 60,8 years and they were predominantly men. There was wide variation in relation to the protocol used, type of motor skill focused on and type of scales used for evaluation. Conclusion. Mental practice can be considered an additional therapeutic approach, available for application in patients with specific caractheristics. Despite satisfactory results been demonstrated, articles published until the present moment do not show scientific evidence to sustain the application of mental practice in a reliable way.
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