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Stroke – The road to recovery

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:37:31 +0000

Stroke recovery is a long road, but one well worth walking. In this video it mentions getting your toes moving is a large part of leaning to walk again. Mirror Box therapy is a great tool to help this.

Road to Recovery Brings Stroke Patient to Brazos Valley Rehab …
Road to Recovery Brings Stroke Patient to Brazos Valley Rehab Center Every 45 seconds someone in the US suffers a stroke and the road to recovery can be.
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Mirror Boxes distributed by End the Pain Project

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:24:47 +0000

Folding Mirror Boxes were donated to the End the Pain Project http://endthepainproject.org by mirrorboxtherpy.com sponsor , Reflex Pain Management ltd www.reflexpainmanagement.com . They have been shipped to the National School for Prosthetists in Hanoi; an NGO in central Vietnam; the Veteran’s Rehabilitation Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and they are negotiating a hand loss/phantom pain pilot with a leprosy hospital in West Bengal connected to 16 other leprosy hospitals in Bangladesh.

We wish them all the success with there mirror boxes.

Mirror therapy was first described by V.S. Ramachandran, but has since been proven in the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) / RSD, and stroke rehabilitation, as well as for hand and foot rehabilitation following an injury or surgery. www.mirrorboxtherapy.com is a good place to start; it has lots of information and a link to where you can purchase a mirror box.

Traditional Mirror Therapy

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:42:11 +0000

Quick Find Use keywords to find the product you are looking for … Traditional Mirror Therapy (TMT) in the Physical Therapy Management of Movement and Postural Control Problems (Martin J Watson, Phd., MCSP, School of Allied … https://www.novapublishers.com/…/product_info.php?…id…

Stroke – A picture is worth a thousand words

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:59:59 +0000

Great slide show showing what a stroke is, the cause and treatment…
Stroke Pictures Slideshow: A Visual Guide to Understanding Stroke …
Rehabilitation is the centerpiece of the stroke recovery process. …. WebMD Medical Reference from Healthwise: “Stroke Rehabilitation – Overview.” …
www.medicinenet.com/stroke_pictures_slideshow/article.htm

Dr. Russ speaking about stroke rehab

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:16:55 +0000

Dr. Russ speaking about stroke rehab at a neurology conference.He speaks of mirror box therapy and that the old way of thinking - that after 6 mouths were will be no more recovery, is just not ture…

Systematic review of the effectiveness of mirror therapy

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:45:41 +0000

This review gives an overview of the current state of research regarding the effectiveness of mirror therapy in upper extremity function. This is a great review and worth every $

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a917931179~frm=titlelink

Results. Fifteen studies were identified and reviewed. Five different patient categories were studied: two studies focussed on mirror therapy after an amputation of the upper limb, five studies focussed on mirror therapy after stroke, five studies focussed on mirror therapy with complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS1) patients, one study on mirror therapy with complex regional pain syndrome type 2 (CRPS2) and two studies focussed on mirror therapy after hand surgery other than amputation.

Mirror therapy improves hand function in subacute stroke

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:14:27 +0000

Mirror therapy improves hand function in subacute stroke: a …
Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of mirror therapy in the upper limb rehabilitation of people with … the mirror group received 30 minutes of mirror therapy …
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Mirror Box Therapy General Discussion

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:04:42 +0000

Great Discussion on mirror box therapy, but will probably leave you with more questions than answer, But isn’t that what a discussion is all about. Will worth 5 min of your time.

[Question] Manual Magic versus Mirror Box Therapy – SomaSimple …
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[Question] Manual Magic versus Mirror Box Therapy General Discussion.
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stroke rehabilitation, A Pilot Study

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:46:38 +0000

Following the discovery of mirror neurons by di Pellegrino and the introduction of mirror therapy by Ramachandran, recent researches on mirror neurons have led researchers to believe that observation based interventions may be an important component of successful stroke rehabilitation…i-CREATe 2010 – OpenConf Conference Management System
Mirror therapy is a form of observation technique and has been used in stroke rehabilitation. It has been observed to work on patients performing a variety …
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Compelling evidence mirror therapy works

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:29:07 +0000

NEJM — Mirror Therapy for Chronic Complex Regional Pain Syndrome …
Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Mirror Therapy for Chronic Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 and Stroke — Figure 1.
https://content.nejm.org/cgi/content-nw/full/361/6/634/F1