Task-oriented arm training for stroke patients based on remote handling technology concepts: A feasibility study.

Background: Improving arm-hand skill performance is a major therapeutic target in stroke rehabilitation. Arm-hand rehabilitation may be enriched in content and variation by using technology-assisted training. Especially for people with a severely affected arm, technology-assisted training offers more challenging training possibilities.

Effects of a remote-handling-concept-based task-oriented arm training (ReHab-TOAT) on arm-hand skill performance in chronic stroke: a study protocol for a two-armed randomized controlled trial.

Background: Improving arm-hand skill performance is a major therapeutic target in stroke rehabilitation and needs intensive and varied training. However, guided treatment time is limited. Technology can assist in the training of patients, offering a higher intensity and more variety in content.

Added-value of spasticity reduction to improve arm-hand skill performance in sub-acute stroke patients with a moderately to severely affected arm-hand.

Background And Objective: Stroke patients with a moderately to severely affected hand may be impeded in exploiting their full arm-hand training potential during rehabilitation due to spasticity. Reducing early signs of spasticity in sub-acute stroke patients may lead to improvements in arm-hand-function and arm-hand-skill-performance.

Methods: Single-case-experimental-design and meta-analysis.