1MPT Student, Dept of Rehabilitation Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
2Asst Professor, Neurophysiotherapy, Dept of Rehabilitation Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
3Sr Physiotherapist, Dept of Physiotherapy, G B Pant Hospital, New Delhi
*Corresponding author: Dr Nusrat Hamdani (PT) Asst professor Neurophysiotherapy, Dept of rehabilitation Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi-62 Email id: nhamdani@jamiahamdard.ac.in
Online published on 27 April, 2016.
The Upper Extremity is vital to activities of daily living (ADL) and Impairments of the upper limb can compromise participation in many of these essential and meaningful tasks.2 Hand motor impairment is especially common and contributes enormously to the ensuing disability.3 The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the efficiency of motor learning by grip force adjusting task is transferred from the dominant to the non dominant hand in patients with stroke, so that training program of such types can be devised for stroke patient for getting better patient outcomes.
pretest-posttest experimental design
26 subjects from HAHC Hospital, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi.
All subjects were divided into 3 groups each group was asked to press a grip force measurer with force that the subjects perceive to be 20% of the maximum force.
Hand held dynamometer
The results of the study show that there is no statistically significant difference between the three groups though some clinical improvement was seen between the groups.
The results of our study were not statistically significant. Hence, our Null Hypothesis-“Grip force adjusting task (20% of the maximum force) given to dominant hand has no effect on learning of grip force adjusting task, in non dominant hand in patients with stroke, ” Holds True
Inter manual transfer, Grip force adjusting, Motor learning
