The effects of mental practice combined with modified constraint-induced therapy on corticospinal excitability, movement quality, function, and activities of daily living in persons with stroke.

Purpose: Studies on to what extent the combined therapy of modified constraint-induced movement therapy and mental practice is more effective than modified constraint-induced movement therapy alone are lacking. This study aims to compare the effects of the combined therapy with modified constraint-induced movement therapy alone on corticospinal excitability, quality of the movement of the affected upper extremity, upper motor functions, and performance of the affected arm in daily life of hemiplegic stroke patients.

Methods: The participants comprised 14 people who had suffered stroke and were randomly divided into two groups.

A comparison of hemisphere-specific training pattern in Inter-limb Learning Transfer (ILT) for stroke patients with hemiparesis.

Background: Stroke patients have major problems with impaired upper-extremity function. Unfortunately, many patients do not experience a full recovery from movement deficits in the upper extremities.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of inter-limb learning transfer (ILT) to the contralateral upper limb after both hemisphere-specific and -unspecific ipsilateral upper limb training for stroke patients with hemiparesis.

Effects of forced use combined with scheduled home exercise program on upper extremity functioning in individuals with hemiparesis.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to 1) investigate the effects of forced use combined with scheduled home exercise program compared to forced use only on increasing upper extremity functioning, 2) examine whether increased upper extremity functioning generalized to activities of daily living (ADL) functioning, and 3) explore participants' psychosocial functioning.

Methods: A single-subject A-B-A'-C research design was employed in this study. The intervention consisted of two conditions: forced use only (intervention period B), and forced use in addtion to scheduled home exercise program (intervention period C).

The application of client-centred occupational therapy for Korean children with developmental disabilities.

The aim of this paper was to investigate the effectiveness of client-centred occupational therapy using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) and the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). Eight girls and 23 boys from Korea, with developmental disabilities and from 3 to 10 years of age participated in this study. Each child participated in 20 to 24 sessions of client-centred occupational therapy.

Cyclopropylmethyl/cyclobutyl rearrangements on surfaces: evidence for transient cation formation near O-covered Mo(110).

Rearrangement reactions of C4-alkoxides on O-covered Mo(110) have been studied using temperature-programmed reaction spectroscopy and reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy. Cyclobutoxide on Mo(110), prepared from the corresponding alcohol or bromide, is described for the first time in detail. Several reaction mechanisms are considered for the ring-opening rearrangement of cyclopropylmethoxide during high-temperature annealing.