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Understanding poststroke upper limb impairment is essential to planning
therapeutic efforts to restore function. However, determining which upper limb
impairment to treat and how is complex because the impairments are not static and
multiple impairments may be present simultaneously.
How impairments contribute to
upper limb dysfunction may be understood by examining them from the perspective
of their functional consequences. There are 3 main functional consequences of
impairments on upper limb function: (1) learned nonuse, (2) learned bad use, and
(3) forgetting as determined by behavioral analysis of tasks. The impairments
that contribute to each of these functional limitations are described.
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