Mirror Therapy and CIMT in Chronic Stroke Patients

The aim of this research is to find and compare the effect of mirror therapy and constrained induced movement therapy in upper limb rehabilitation among chronic stroke patient .Study conducted in THQ Hospital Depalpur. The sample size was 36. Patients were divided into two groups. In group-A patients were treated with mirror therapy and in group-B patients were treated with constrained induced movement therapy. Both therapy sessions lasting for 60 minutes for total 1 hour in a day, 5 times a week and for consecutive 3 weeks in a month. Sessions consist of total 20 min of passive mobilization to both groups, 30 min session for MMT to 1 group, 30 min session to CIMT (task specific) to another group, and 10 minutes standard ADL activities. The outcome was calculated with FMA-UE and modified Ashworth scale. Data was analyzed by SPSS 22.