Hence, although attunement is not confined to the trained limb, the transfer does not follow a genuine functional organization either.
Since different muscles are involved in the equivalent action of opposite limbs, positive transfer resulting from cross education cannot be attributed simply to common muscular movements; instead it would seem that cross education depends on central processes that control the actions of both limbs.
In the second half of the previous century, several studies have tested whether such a recalibration is confined to the exposed limb or transfers to the unexposed limb.
In addition, data on stroke type (ischemic or hemorrhagic), location (left, right, or bilateral), and improvement in Brunnstrom's stage of motor recovery (BMR) in the affected limbs following transfer to the rehabilitation ward were also collected.
Intra-limb energy transfers are feasible because the accelerations and masses and, consequently, forces, are similar, but this is not the case between the body and the limbs (Willems et al., 1995).
In parallel with rehabilitation by the physiotherapist, nurses and nurse's aides have to stimulate elderly patients suffering from BD through the activities of everyday life, but in doing so they must avoid pulling on the patient's upper limbs during transfers.
Due to the lack of an adequate conventional therapy against lower limb ischemia, gene transfer for therapeutic angiogenesis is seen as an attractive alternative.
If, on the other hand, attunement is anatomically specific, it should be confined to the trained limb and no transfer should occur.
Group 1 practiced with the simulator on the preferred limb and then transferred it to the nonpreferred limb; group 2 practiced with the simulator on the nonpreferred limb and then transferred it to the preferred limb; group 3 was a control group.
