Recovery

• • Brain damage can be caused by serious head injuries, strokes, tumours
  • Brain damage can result in loss of function
  • Brain has potential to recover lost function
  • Due to plasticity brain rewires itself
  • Healthy areas of brain located near the damaged area to begin take over
• Strengths

  Numerous studies have shown CIMT produces cortical reorganisation which results in regained or improved function
• Strengths

  Principles of CIMT can also be applied to patients who suffer from aphasia as a result of stroke damage. Instead of communicating in other ways they play a game requiring them to try to speak a word on the card
• Weaknesses

  CIMT can be very frustrating
• Weaknesses

  CIMT needs to be very intensive to be effective. Patients required to train the affected limb restrained for 90% of the time that they are awake
• Weaknesses

  Most effective way in treating patients who have suffered mild to moderate strokes if there's a lot of damage to the brain