International Journal of Neurorehabilitation

Commentary on Clinical Feasibility of the Crossed-Education Using the Task-Oriented Approach on the Tilt Table in Stroke Patients

Abstract

Chang-Yong Kim and and Hyeong-Dong Kim

This commentary regards the inferences of the findings related to the effect of crossed-education using the progressive task-oriented approach on a tilt table in stroke patients. The findings from these studies recommend that crossed-education using the task-oriented training on the tilt table was very helpful for the function and rehabilitation of lower limb and clinical scores in acute and chronic hemiplegic stroke patients. Since these publications, a novel neurorehabilitation strategy using the crossed-education approach has been reported instead of rehabilitation treatment method concentrated on the affected-side. This has not been used in any study with acute and chronic stroke subjects. Furthermore, follow-up study also obtained that the use of crossed-education using task-oriented training on a tilt table has more aids on the betterment of maximal grip strength and arm function in a sub-acute stage of post-stroke hemiplegia subjects. Therefore, our proposed therapeutic approach could be a novel neuro-rehabilitation strategy for patients with various upper and lower limb severities.