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ArticleClinical rehabilitation2024

The use of home-based digital technology to support post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation: A scoping review.

Gdiom Gebreheat, Adele Goman, Alison Porter-Armstrong

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Article in Clinical rehabilitation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gdiom GebreheatSchool of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1775-8216
Adele GomanSchool of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.
Alison Porter-ArmstrongSchool of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.
Edinburgh Napier University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo identify, map and synthesize the extent and nature of existing studies on the use of home-based digital technology to support post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation. DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive literature search was completed between 30 May 2022 and 05 April 2023, from seven online databases (CINAHL, Cochrane Library, PubMed, ScienceDirect, IEEExplore, Web of Science and PEDro), Google Scholar and the reference lists of already identified articles.

methodsA scoping review was conducted according to Arksey and O'Malley (2005), and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. All English-language studies reporting on the use of home-based digital technology to support upper limb post-stroke rehabilitation were eligible for inclusion.

resultsThe search generated a total of 1895 records, of which 76 articles met the inclusion criteria. Of these, 52 were experimental studies and the rest, qualitative, case series and case studies. Of the overall 2149 participants, 2028 were stroke survivors with upper limb impairment. The majority of studies were aimed at developing, designing and/or assessing the feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of a digital system for poststroke upper limb rehabilitation in home settings. The thematic analysis found six major categories: Tele-rehabilitation (

conclusionThe digital technologies used in post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation were multimodal, and system-based comprising telerehabilitation, gamification, virtual reality, mobile technology, sensors and robotics. Furthermore, future research should focus to determine the effectiveness of these modalities.

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StrokeStroke RehabilitationActivities of Daily LivingDigital TechnologyHumansUpper Extremitydigital healthhome-based technologyPoststroke rehabilitationupper limb rehabilitation

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PMID37469176
PMCPMC10631286
OpenAlexW4384818941

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