Effect of Dominant Hand Training on Intermanual Transfer to Sub Dominant Hand in Patients with Cerebral Tumors

Back ground and purpose The purpose of this study was to find out there is any effect of dominant hand training (RT), on intermanual transfer to subdominant hand (LT) in patients after cerebral tumor surgery. Subjects and methods Subjects were 32 patients with the mean age of 48.21±5.85, height 166.56±6.23 cms, and mean weight 67.68±5.03 kgs with upper limb weakness secondary to cerebral tumors. Using peg board to analyze motor performance. Raw scores were standardized for data analysis using paired't' test under SPSS 11 windows software. Results Over the 2 weeks period the experimental group patients has significantly shown improvement. Reduction in mean time to complete the task on dominant hand is 74.38±9.57 sec to 63.25±8.69 sec and in non dominant hand 145.81±12.58 sec to 139.94±12.41 sec. But in control group has no significant difference (p=0.0018) and the task 73±10.41 sec to 72±10.24 sec. Conclusion and discussion The findings suggest that the task improvement is only by intermanual transfer. So that measuring changed in experimental group. But in control group sufficient improvement only by familiarization of the task though clinically significant.