Telerehabilitation in poststroke anomia.
Anomia, a word-finding difficulty, is a frequent consequence of poststroke linguistic disturbance, associated with fluent and nonfluent aphasia that needs long-term specific and intensive speech rehabilitation. The present study explored the feasibility of telerehabilitation as compared to a conventional face-to-face treatment of naming, in patients with poststroke anomia. Five aphasic chronic patients participated in this study characterized by: strictly controlled crossover design; well-balanced lists of words in picture-naming tasks where progressive phonological cues were provided; same kind of the treatment in the two ways of administration. ANOVA was used to compare naming accuracy in the two types of treatment, at three time points: baseline, after treatment, and followup. The results revealed no main effect of treatment type (P = 0.844) indicating that face-to-face and tele-treatment yielded comparable results. Moreover, there was a significant main effect of time (P = 0.0004) due to a better performance immediately after treatment and in the followup when comparing them to baseline. These preliminary results show the feasibility of teletreatment applied to lexical deficits in chronic stroke patients, extending previous work on telerehabilitation and opening new vistas for future studies on teletreatment of language functions.
Foundation IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotics, Neurorehabilitation Department, Via Alberoni 70, 30126 Venice, Italy.
Michela
0000-0001-8824-3338
M
Agostini
Foundation IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotics, Neurorehabilitation Department, Via Alberoni 70, 30126 Venice, Italy.
Martina
0000-0001-5201-9932
M
Garzon
Foundation IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotics, Neurorehabilitation Department, Via Alberoni 70, 30126 Venice, Italy ; Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliera of Padua, Italy.
Silvia
S
Benavides-Varela
Department of Neuroscience, Azienda Ospedaliera of Padua, Italy.
Serena
S
De Pellegrin
Foundation IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotics, Neurorehabilitation Department, Via Alberoni 70, 30126 Venice, Italy.
Giulia
G
Bencini
Neurological Rehabilitation, National Health Service, Grosseto, Italy.
Giulia
0000-0003-0685-2389
G
Rossi
Neurological Rehabilitation, National Health Service, Grosseto, Italy.
Sara
0000-0003-0451-225X
S
Rosadoni
Neurological Rehabilitation, National Health Service, Grosseto, Italy.
Mauro
M
Mancuso
Foundation IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotics, Neurorehabilitation Department, Via Alberoni 70, 30126 Venice, Italy.
Andrea
0000-0002-1609-8060
A
Turolla
Foundation IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotics, Neurorehabilitation Department, Via Alberoni 70, 30126 Venice, Italy.
Francesca
F
Meneghello
Foundation IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotics, Neurorehabilitation Department, Via Alberoni 70, 30126 Venice, Italy.
Paolo
P
Tonin
D000368:Aged; D000849:Anomia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003071:Cognition; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*