Background: There is extensive literature to support the efficacy of both pediatric constraint-induced movement therapy (pCIMT) and hand-arm bimanual intensive (HABIT) for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. In addition, there increasing evidence training caregivers (parents other care providers) carry out interventions in home. The Family Activity Adaptation Model (FAAM) presents guidelin...

Learning of a procedural motor-skill task is known to progress through a series of unique memory stages. Performance initially improves during training, and continues to improve, without further rehearsal, across subsequent periods of sleep. Here, we investigate how this delayed sleep-dependent learning is affected when the task characteristics are varied across several degrees of difficulty, a...

This study investigates the influence of extensive bimanual training in professional musicians on the incidence of handedness in the most basic form of right-handedness (RH) and non-right-handedness (NRH), according to Annett's "right shift theory". The lateralisation coefficients (LCs) of a total sample of 128 bimanually performing music students were calculated for speed, regularity, and fati...

Aim: To determine the effects of Hand-arm Bimanual Intensive Training on fine motor skills chronic stroke patients. Methods: A randomized control trail was conducted at District Head Quarter Hospital Sargodha. Twenty-eight patients were into 2 groups. All examined by using Questionnaire Disabilities Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH), Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) Wolf Motor Function (WMFT). Cont...

Hemodynamic responses were measured applying functional magnetic resonance imaging in two professional piano players and two carefully matched non-musician control subjects during the performance of self-paced bimanual and unimanual tapping tasks. The bimanual tasks were chosen because they resemble typical movements pianists have to generate during piano exercises. The results showed that the ...

Manual control of robotic arms is challenging and productive operators require extensive prior training. Effective training should systematically vary the difficulty level robot arm motions. This study investigates extent to which Fitts’ law could define movement for bimanual controlled movements arms. Inspired by forestry work-methods, we designed tapping Task assess time throughput ten unskil...