Influence of the intensive multifactorial neurorehabilitation program to improve precision and rhythm on patients suffering from ataxia caused by stroke or multiple

ABSTRACT

Patients affected by stroke or multiple sclerosis can have compromised ways as to systems or organs, such as the cerebellum. These patients present a diminishing in their quality of movement coordination, as is the case of cerebellar ataxia. The present work has as main objective, to show the results obtained when we applied an Intensive Multifactorial Neurorehabilitation Program for 28 days to a group of 41 patients with cerebellar ataxia, for 28 patients with a Stroke sequel and 13 for Multiple Sclerosis. All patients were assessed with precision and rhythm variables. The program was applied during 7 daily hours, 6 days a week. The registered data from initial and final evaluations were statistically compared between them and against normalizing parameters obtained from 76 healthy evaluated subjects. The obtained results allowed us to conclude in a preliminary way, that the Intensive Multifactorial Neurorehabilitation Program contributed to improve the variables of precision and rhythm(AU)