Shubham Sharma¹, Neha Gupta², Shubhi Kulshrestha³* and Sukriti Raj⁴

¹Assistant Professor, Santosh Medical College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
²Assistant Professor - lll, Amity Institute of Physiotherapy, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
³Senior Physiotherapist, AID PLUS Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Clinic, Delhi, India
⁴Physiotherapy Faculty, Impact Paramedical and Health Institute, New Delhi, India

*Corresponding Author: Shubhi Kulshrestha, Senior Physiotherapist, AID PLUS Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Clinic, Delhi, India.

Received: January 27, 2022; Published: April 11, 2022

Abstract

Background: Stroke is a neurological disease. Half of the stroke patients are left with disability. Most of the stroke patients are able to walk independently but more than 50% of the patient will not recover their hand functions. Upper extremity functional recovery is slower than lower limb functional recovery.

Objective: There are several protocols which we are used to rehabilitate the upper limb after stroke, through this study we can find out the latest technique and the most effective technique at the present time.

Search Strategy: Various articles have been studied to create this literature review. The database was probed from various journal sites such as PubMed, Science Direct, Research Gate, Cochrane and Google Scholar. The articles were identified with keywords such upper limb rehabilitation for stroke, PNF for upper limb stroke rehabilitation and Bobath therapy.

Results: Total 10 studies were identified with different protocols to improve functional hand and arm activities for stroke patient. There are many concepts and approaches which are evolved during time and produce great output in the rehabilitation of upper limb. Concept used in postural control and integration of the task performance of the sensory information for the motor control and the perception will improve at the cortex level.

Conclusions: Through all the studies, every concept and approach gives significant improvement on each other. The latest technologies like electrical stimulator are more focused from last 5 years while CIMT shows better results in comparison with other studies for the rehabilitation of the upper limb recovery.

Keywords: Stroke; Neurological Disease; Limb

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Citation

Citation: Shubhi Kulshrestha., et al. “Evidence Based Physiotherapeutic Concepts and Approaches on Improving Functional Hand and Arm Activities for Stroke Patient".Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 5.5 (2022): 27-32.

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