Sidra Manzoor, Bilal Umar, Mehwish Niaz, Adnan Afzal, Mehwish Naz.
Effectiveness of Mirror Therapy on Upper Limb Function in patients with Stroke (Monoplegic).
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;15(1):183-5.

Background: stroke is serve as strong cause of long term disability and decline in functional capacity. Physical activity is directly proportional to decrease in obesity and increase in quality of life. Physical activity improves long term outcome of stroke and decrease the economic burden Mirror therapy is a technique which is first developed to treat amputated limb and found effective to improve upper limb function. Mirror therapy is proposed to increase neural plasticity by activating visual illusion in cerebral hemisphere. Aim: To find the effectiveness of mirror therapy in post stroke (monoplegic) patients. Methodology: 30 patients who met inclusion and exclusion criteria were recruited. out of 30 patients 16 patients were selected by using random table number and divided into equal two groups by lottery method, containing 08 participants each. Experimental group was given mirror therapy with parasagital mirror frequency of 30minute/daily, 5 days/week and four weeks. Control group was given same treatment protocol but with covered mirror. Outcome measurement tool was FMA. Outcome was taken at baseline, week 02 and week 04 respectively. One way ANOVA was used to measure the effectiveness of mirror therapy. Results: One way ANOVA was applied to measure statistical significance, statistical analysis showed that FMA total score, pain, sensation and joint pain has (p = 0.001, p≤0.05) at week 01 and week 02.This statistical value depict that mirror therapy is effective to improve upper limb function. Conclusion: it is concluded that mirror therapy has significant role to improve upper limb function.

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