Effect of Play Therapy on Functional Reach in Stroke Cases

Objective

To study the effect of play therapy on functional reach in stroke patient

Design

Pretest-posttest experimental group design

Setting

Occupational therapy department, SVNIRTAR, Cuttack, Orrisa

Subjects

Thirty male patients with stroke were included in the study. The mean age of experimental group was 46.13 and control group was 43.60.

Intervention

Experimental group received play therapy along with conventional therapy and Control group received conventional therapy only for 5 days a week for 4 weeks

Outcome Measure

Out come was measured using functional reach test.

Results

Within group comparison shows statistically significant improvement in both the groups (p< 0.05). On between group comparison experimental group shows statistically greater improvement in functional reach score as compare to control group (p<0.05).

Conclusion

Addition of play therapy along with conventional therapy shown greater improvement as compared to conventional therapy alone. So Play therapy can be efficiently added in clinical practice for treating stroke patients.