Movement changes due to hemiplegia in stroke survivors: a hermeneutic phenomenological study.

CONCLUSIONS: The first four themes attempt to express participants' pain and difficulty in living with their present body; the last three attempt to express methods for coping with the present body in the company of others. Results will assist therapists to understand the significant needs of their clients in the maintenance phase. Implications for Rehabilitation Hemiplegia is paralysis of half of the body; it represents one kind of physical disability caused by stroke. Re-interpretation of how patients had experienced the changes of their movements after they had hemiplegia is helpful for the therapists to understand the significant needs for their clients. It may be especially relevant for therapists working with stroke survivors in the maintenance phase, whose functional recovery of physical movements is not expected to occur to a greater extent.
PMID: 26732774 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - January 5, 2016 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Takashima R, Murata W, Saeki K Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research