Mirror Therapy with Cutaneous Electrical Sensory Stimulation on Lower Limb Motor Functions in Stroke

A customised angle-adjustable frame with a mirror board (60 × 90 cm) will be used. All subjects are instructed to perform hip flexion/abduction, knee flexion/extension and ankle dorsiflexion/plantarflexion on the intact-limb during a 15 minutes period.

TENS will be delivered to the common peroneal nerve of the paretic leg. The stimulation frequency will be 100Hz and with an intensity just below the motor threshold.

The lower-limb task-oriented training comprises 6 exercises, namely stepping up and down, heel lift a dorsiflexed position, partial squatting, kicking a ball with alternate legs, gait re-education and transition training. Each exercise last for 10 minutes