Valerie M. Pomeroy

TL;DR: Based on the available literature in healthy volunteers, robust activation of the nonprimary motor structures, but only weak and inconsistent activation of M1, occurs during motor imagery, which suggests the encouraging effect of motor imagery training on motor recovery after stroke.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of physical rehabilitation approaches for stroke patients is presented, where the authors explore the effects of approaches that incorporate individual treatment components, categorised as functional task training, musculoskeletal intervention (active), MCI, neurophysiological intervention (passive), cardiopulmonary intervention, assistive device or modality.

TL;DR: The results of thousands of trials are never acted on because their published reports do not describe the interventions in enough detail, so how can the reporting be improved?

TL;DR: There is evidence that physiotherapy intervention, using a mix of components from different approaches, is significantly more effective than no treatment or placebo control in the recovery of functional independence following stroke.

TL;DR: Current evidence provides some, but limited, support for the hypothesis that a higher dose of the same type of exercised-based therapy enhances motor recovery after stroke.