Effects of Home-based CIMT and Clinic-based CIM on Stroke

Participants and their families will be required to attend clinic to practice 3 times (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) during the first week, 2 times (Monday and Friday) during the second week and once (Monday) during the 3rd week under the supervision of a trained research assistant. They will be allowed to practice exclusively at home during the 4th week under the supervision of their family members.

Participants in both groups will perform 5 tasks with the affected upper limb, each 100 times, making it 500 repetitions in total within a duration of 2 hours every day, five days a week for 4 weeks at home and in the clinic respectively. Details of the tasks to be performed are presented in table 1. We chose 2 hours because, patients with stroke can perform about 300 repetitions of tasks practice within one hour. Similarly, we chose 500 repetitions because the number of repetitions of tasks practice required for motor recovery ranges between 300 and 600 repetitions per day

Participants will attend 45 minutes health talk provided by a research assistant twice in a week (Mondays and Fridays) in the clinic for 4 weeks. They will receive each talk in either a group of 3 or 5 patients. Similar control intervention was used in previous study