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During the same period, her unaffected arm and hand were restrained 5d/wk during 5 hours initially identified as a time of frequent use.
CIT involves constraining the unaffected arm in a sling or mitt, forcing the use of the weaker or paralyzed arm in daily activities.
And in a third group of patients, who had suffered their stroke many years earlier, the muscle synergies of the affected arm split into fragments of the synergies seen in the unaffected arm.
If the items in the questionnaire were present in only one arm, the volunteer was allowed to participate, but could only use the unaffected arm for the study measurements.
However, the reason for this difference was likely because their study surveyed an older population, living with a chronic arthritic condition, who had become adept at performing their daily activities with their unaffected arm (O'Hara et al. 2016).
I assume that years of typing was probably the cause, and that most physical activities involving the affected arm, or even the unaffected arm (running, swimming, driving a car, sitting at a desk, sitting up in bed indeed, most actions that involved movement), were aggravators, and that the only thing that could make the situation worse was exercise involving overhead weights.
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Then, by utilizing a specially designed factorization algorithm, the researchers identified characteristic muscle synergies in both the stroke-affected and unaffected arms.
In the 2009 study, and again in the new paper, the researchers showed that synergies in the affected arms of patients who suffered mild strokes in the cortex are very similar to those seen in their unaffected arms even though the muscle activation patterns are different.
Differences in 8 parameters between the affected and unaffected arms were calculated.
Notably, both affected and "unaffected" arms display aberrations with increased time after BCRL onset.
Response was defined as at least a 30% reduction in the difference in size between the affected and unaffected arms.
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