《Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice》 ›› 2018, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (6): 659-666.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-9771.2018.06.008

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Advance in Mirror Therapy for Motor Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients with Hemiplegia (review)

CHEN Ying-lun, BAI Yu-long   

  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China
  • Received:2018-03-23 Revised:2018-04-26 Published:2018-06-25 Online:2018-06-28
  • Contact: BAI Yu-long. E-mail: dr_baiyl@fudan.edu.cn

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, facilitation of motor pathways, and so on. A large quantity of researches claimed that training of unaffected limb activated ipsilateral cortex, changed conduction of pyramid tracts, and promote motor function recovery of affected limb, which corrected motor deficits and improved function of patients with hemiplegia (eg. finger movement and wrist flexion-extention function).

Key words: stroke, mirror therapy, motor function, rehabilitation, review

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