Post Stroke Mirror Movements Preventing Performance of Bilateral Movements and Activities of Daily Living

We report the rare case of a patient with MMs of the affected hand due to atherothrombotic cerebral infarction of the right postcentral and precentral gyri. An 85-year-old Japanese man presented with left-sided hemiplegia and sensory impairment. MMs were observed in the left (affected) hand during many ADLs and could not be suppressed by the patient ’s will even when the examiner verbally instructed the patient to move only the unaffected hand. The patient was aware that his hand moved on its own, but he could not control it. The patient was trained on various types of bilateral coordinated motor exercises for 114 days after the MMs were firs t identified. However, this did not affect MM occurrence, and the MMs remained at the time of discharge. Future research is necessary to plan long-term interventions for MMs of the affected hand.Case Rep Neurol 2022;14:389 –396
Source: Case Reports in Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research