Four weeks (10 sessions) of individual sensory discrimination training produced clinically important changes in upper limb sensation after stroke.

Research objective: to compare the effectiveness of sensory discrimination training vs. repeated nonspecific exposure to sensory stimuli in improving sensory discrimination ability of the upper limb following stroke.
Australian Occupational Therapy Journal 2012 59 (2) 165-167.
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