Agnė Grigonytė, Aušra Adomavičienė, Vidmantas Alekna Abstract Cerebral infarction (stroke) is an acute focal cerebral blood flow disruption that disturbs persons biopsychosocial functions. In order to improve the stroke patient’s activities and participation in everyday life a virtual reality device – “Microsoft Xbox Kinect 360” is used by training to help repair the impaired functions.…
Evelina Lamsodienė, Gedvilė Juškytė Abstract According to statistics, around 8 thousand myocardial infarctions are diagnosed in Lithuania every year. It noticeably deteriorates human’s activity and a person’s life quality, as a result a disability occurs, a blood circulation disorder decreases a person’s working activity, so it becomes more difficult to adapt to the environment. In…
Daiva Baltaduonienė, Neringa Karsokaitė Abstract The attempts to find any Lithuanian scientific works on mirrortherapy impact on hand function improvement of patients afterstroke were unsuccessful that is why our aim in this work wasto analyze the benefit of the therapy. The aim of the final work isto evaluate the changes in hand motoric function when…
Viktorija Repšaitė, Daiva Baltaduonienė, Alfonsas Vainoras Abstract A stroke is an acute focal cerebral circulatory disorder characterized by focal neurological symptoms persisting longer than 24 hours from the onset of the disease. The goal of the occupational therapy in patients who have suffered a stroke is to help return the patient‘s physical, mental, social and…
Erika Miklaševičienė, Juozas Raistenskis, Ieva Eglė Jamontaitė Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of Constraint- Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) for patient‘s independence after stroke. The sample consisted of 40 patients after stroke, who underwent rehabilitation in University Hospital Santariškių Clinics, Rehabilitation, Physical and Sports Medicine Centre during 2010 – 2012…
