Little can be done to help the hundreds of thousands of people whose severe strokes have left them with one arm stuck close to the sides of their bodies like a broken wing. A 30-patient study, however, has found that magnetically stimulating a specific part of their brains can affect arm movements — raising hope that, in the future, a short course of therapy targeting this area could help to free the arm and restore some use of the stroke-affected limb.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151020144826.htm
Stimulating specific brain area could help defrost arms frozen by stroke
20 octubre 2015
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