Background and Purpose— A debated subject in stroke rehabilitation relates to the best type of training approach for motor recovery. First, we analyzed the effects of repetitive movement practice in 2 ...

Targeted therapy of the ipsilesional, or “good” arm, improved motor function, including control and speed, in chronic stroke survivors with severe paresis. In a small randomized clinical trial ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Tuesday discontinued the low-dose rivaroxaban arm of its ongoing Phase 3 CAPTIVA stroke prevention trial. The primary goal of the trial is to determine if ...

There was significant improvement in hand function in the ipsilesional treatment group, with a 12% reduction in time-to-completion. HealthDay News — For patients with chronic stroke with severe ...

Citing an increase in safety events and evidence of futility, the U.S. NIH stopped an investigational low-dose rivaroxaban arm of its Comparison of Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Therapies for ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) halted a treatment arm of Bayer and Johnson & Johnson’s Xarelto (rivaroxaban) in a phase 3 stroke prevention trial after an independent committee flagged safety ...

Abstract: In a dual arm therapeutic regime aiming to rehabilitate motor functions post stroke, both the affected arm (paretic) and the unaffected (non-paretic) arm are involved. In this context, the ...

Phase 3 data show that high-dose I-ACQUIRE improved arm function at 6 months in infants and toddlers after perinatal stroke. In infants and toddlers who experienced a stroke before birth or within the ...

For years, stroke rehabilitation has focused mainly on the more impaired side of the body. But a new study published in JAMA Neurology has shown that targeted therapy for the less-affected arm—the one ...

Many people who survive a stroke are left with serious and long-lasting problems with their arms. Usually, one arm is more affected than the other, but both arms can become harder to use. Even the ...

Candice Maenza received salary support from a National Institutes of Health grant. Robert Sainburg receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and ...

Stroke survivors often face substantial and long-lasting problems with their arms. Both arms often decline together: When one arm is more severely affected by the stroke, the other becomes more ...