Advance in Mirror Therapy for Motor Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients with Hemiplegia (review) / 中国康复理论与实践

Mirror therapy (MT), was first used for phantom limb pain, and afterwards used widely for stroke and peripheral nerve injury, etc. The mechanism of MT is obscure and various, mainly included mirror neuron system, visual feedback, facili-tation of motor pathways, and so on. A large quantity of researches claimed that training of unaffected limb activated ip-silateral cortex, changed conduction of pyramid tracts, and promote motor function recovery of affected limb, which cor-rected motor deficits and improved function of patients with hemiplegia (eg. finger movement and wrist flexion-exten-tion function).