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Weakness and strength training in persons with poststroke hemiplegia: Rationale, method, and efficacy

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Summary, in English

Several converging lines of contemporary evidence suggest that weakness presents a more serious compromise to movement function in poststroke hemiplegia than spasticity. This review examines the clinical and functional phenomena of weakness in poststroke hemiplegia, currently available evidence identifying physiologic substrates contri-buting to weakness, and reports of early investigations involving high-resistance training targeted at improving strength and the transfer of strength to improvements in functional capacity. Based on this information, we describe some unsolved problems and indicate some likely lines of development to increase our knowledge regarding how resistance training can be included in effective stroke rehabilitation.

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

293-312

Publication/Series

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volume

41

Issue

3A

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

JRRD

Topic

  • Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology

Keywords

  • rehabilitation
  • function
  • recovery of
  • muscle weakness
  • skeletal
  • muscles
  • hemiplegia
  • medicine
  • evidence-based
  • cerebrovascular accident
  • adaptation
  • physiological
  • treatment outcome

Status

Published

Research group

  • Rehabilitation medicine

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1938-1352