Mirror therapy in a patient with a fractured wrist and no active wrist extension.
We report a patient in whom mirror therapy, training moving both hands while watching the reflection of the present or good hand in a parasaggital mirror - a method used for phantom limb and stroke patients - was extremely useful after a fractured wrist with good passive, but no active, extension.
Altschuler
Eric L
EL
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07101, USA. eric.altschuler@umdnj.edu
Hu
Jeong
J
D000328:Adult; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011434:Proprioception; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011885:Radius Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014954:Wrist Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*