Music Therapy for Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients

"The rehabilitative standard intervention (Occupational Therapy) consists of 15 minutes of warm-up exercises plus a 20 minutes training with at least 6 exercises selected from:~wrist~* ulnarization radialization~* prono-supination~* horizontal flexion-extension~* vertical flexion-extension hand~* grasping~* pinching~* extensors~* interosseous shoulder-elbow~* vertical flexion-extension~* push forward"

"The intervention is similar to the standard protocol (15 minutes of warm-up plus 20 minute of training) but involves the sonification of the exercises selected from the list. The Leap Motion Controller is managed with an ad-hoc developed application that is able to associate the movements with a 4 notes arpeggio or with a modulated texture.~With the first mode the movement produces and modulates an harmonic progression built on the consecutive grades of the major scale played as ascending and descending arpeggio with also a volume crescendo and decrescendo.~With the second mode, the movement modulates the volume and the low-pass cutoff frequency of a synthetic texture."