Effect of Repetitive Task Training to Improve Sit to Stand Performance and Activities of Daily Living Skills in Patients with Stroke

Introduction: Stroke is an acute neurological dysfunction and the second leading single cause of death,with 5·8 million fatal cases per year, 40% of which are in people younger than 70 years, with problems involuntary movement, sensation, language, emotional and intellectual functioning. Task oriented approachpractice of Repetitive Task Training (RTT) is a treatment in which you repeat a series of specific movementsover and over again, exercises are categorized as either blocked practice or random practice.Aims and Objectives: To find out the effects of repetitive task training to improve sit to stand performanceand Activities of Daily Living (ADL) skills in stroke patients. To evaluate sit to stand performance and ADLperformance and to train Repetitive task training activities.Materials and Methods: The raw scores of pre intervention and post intervention of Modified AshworthScale (MAS) and Functional Independence Measure (FIM) were added and summed up into final scores.Within experimental and control groups were analyzed using Wilcoxon Sign Ranks Test. Mann–Whitney UTest was performed for knowing the significance between the groups.Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that sit to stand activities which is based on activity interventionis strongly grounded in repetitive task training is a promising intervention for improving sit stand activityperformance of ADL in stroke patients.