Abstract
The modern stroke rehabilitation programs focuses on specific bio-physiological targets. Modern rehabilitation programs mainly make use of its potential plasticity to compensate for injury. Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT), bilateral arm training, and task specific training of the paretic limb, are examples of rehabilitation techniques promoting brain neuro-plasticity. There are many tasks other than locomotor function to be addressed by rehabilitation team. Sensory deficits, speech deficits, dysphagia, memory loss, post stroke central pains and bowel and bladder derangements are among the most important of these challenges that makes a multidisciplinary approach to stroke patients necessary.
Highlights
Stroke, increases in incidence with advanced age is neither an inevitable consequence of aging, nor the end of a happy life
“New hope for the handicapped” is the title of a book written by Dr Howard Rusk, an internist, who is called by many authorities “the father of rehabilitation”
Specificity: This principle is saying in clear words that the type of training will determine the way of neuroplasticity; that means we can modify plasticity in the way of our needs by modulating rehabilitation programs and training the patients in specific functions that help overcome their disability
Summary
Increases in incidence with advanced age is neither an inevitable consequence of aging, nor the end of a happy life. Rehabilitation programs mainly make use of its potential plasticity to compensate for injury. Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) in which the patient is encouraged and trained to use the paretic limb while constraining the healthy one, is one of the most effective rehabilitation programs targeting the brain neuro-plasticity potential[3].
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