The Effect of Task Oriented Training on Hand Functions in Stroke Patients- A Randomized Control Trial

Purpose: The goal of this study is to find out the effect of task oriented training on hand functions in stroke patients.

Methodology: This was an experimental study of 30 stroke patients with unilateral involvement, with paresis of hand. All the subjects were enrolled in identical subgroup and divided into two equal groups (15 patient in each group) one control group (A) and another experimental group(B). Experimental group receive task oriented training and control group receive conventional physiotherapy training. We assessed the hand functions (Gross and Fine manual dexterity) by Box and Block test and Nine hole peg test respectively and tried to find out the additional effect of task oriented training on hand functions.

Results: Result shows that, both the group improved significantly but task oriented training group improved much better than conventional training group.

Conclusions: This study suggests that task oriented is more effective as compare to the conventional training for the hand functions in stroke patients.