MIRROR THERAPY WITH SMARTPHONE: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE POST-STROKE HEMISPHERE
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https://doi.org/10.56238/arev8n4-054Keywords:
Mirror Therapy, Stroke, Rehabilitation, Electromyography, Virtual Reality GlassesAbstract
The after-effects of a stroke are numerous, and can cause hemiparesis or hemiplegia on one side of the body. Among current treatments for intervention, mirror therapy is a proposed approach that aims to reorganize the cortex and restore functionality, as well as reduce pain. Therefore, the objective is to develop a method for training/rehabilitating limbs using virtual reality glasses adapted for use with a smartphone to apply mirror therapy more independently. For evaluation, the following were used: a handgrip dynamometer, the Fugl-Meyer scale, the Timed Get Up and Go test, an upper limb motor skill test, and surface electromyography of the limbs before and after therapeutic intervention to assess motor function and muscle strength. In the statistical analysis, Student's t-tests were performed for normal parameters and Wilcoxon tests for non-normal parameters, where a p-value of 0.05 was considered for rejection of the null hypothesis; for the surface electromyography data, the variables under study were subjected to analysis with trend adjustments for quantitative variables and paired t-test for comparison of measurements. It is concluded that there was a significant improvement in all evaluative tests in the upper limbs, however, in the lower limbs an evolution was observed only in the range of motion and in muscle electrical activation for the evaluative tests.
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