Too much tone to do traditional task practice then start virtual functional practice with HandTutor

The Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine reports on an upcoming double-blind, prospective, randomized, European and Canadian study: Evaluating patient outcomes and costs of managing adults with post-stroke focal spasticity http://bit.ly/gOMxLq

The trial to be conducted by Division of Rehabilitation Medicine; Department of Clinical Sciences Karolinska Institutet; Sweden led by Dr. Borg is aiming to provide evidence for the extended use of botulinum toxin A in focal post-stroke upper and lower limb spasticity and to evaluate the impact of incorporating botulinum toxin treatment into the rehabilitation of patients with spasticity.

Occupational and Physical therapists can reduce the patient’s spasticity level during training. It is important that during this training the patient undertakes repetitive customized exercises that improve their sensory and motor movement ability. The HandTutor system provides virtual functional task practice exercises that motivates and allows the patient to exercise even if they have limited movement ability. This limited movement ability prevents the patient from doing traditional task practice exercises. Intensive repetitive exercises using the HandTutor, therefore improves the patients functional recovery.