Sensory deficits of the paretic and non-paretic upper limbs relate with the motor recovery of the poststroke subjects.

Background: Post stroke, motor paresis has usually been considered to be a crucial factor responsible for the disability; other impairments such as somatosensory deficits may also play a role.

Objective: To determine the relation between the sensory deficits (paretic and non-paretic upper limbs) and the motor recovery of the paretic upper limb and to predict the potential of motor recovery based on the sensory deficits among stroke subjects.

Methods: The study was a cross-sectional study conducted in a rehabilitation institute.

Active Sensory Therapies Enhancing Upper Limb Recovery Among Poststroke Subjects: A Systematic Review.

Background: In stroke, sensory deficits may affect the motor recovery of the subjects. The evidence for the active sensory intervention to enhance motor recovery is sparsely available.

Purpose: To systematically review the available evidence from the studies on active sensory therapies augmenting upper limb recovery among poststroke subjects.

Synergy-Based Motor Therapy Inducing Favorable Changes in Motor Function Components among Poststroke Subjects: A Single-Group Study.

 Synergy is an outcome of multiple muscles acting in a synchronized pattern, controlled by the central nervous system. After brain insult, a set of deviated movement pattern emerges in the affected limb. The methods to train synchronization of muscles may diminish the deviated movement augmenting neuromotor control.

Effect of NEuroplasticity-Principles-based SEnsory-Rehabilitation (NEPSER) on sensori-motor recovery in stroke: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Introduction: Up to 2/3rd of the stroke subjects may experience impairment in any of the somatosensory modalities such as light touch, proprioception, and stereognosis. The sensory recovery is strongly associated with the level of motor recovery. Very negligible sensory-based interventions have been developed and found to be evident in enhancing the sensory deficit and associated motor recovery.