Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIT) is widely recognized as the most innovative form or stroke therapy. It
empowers people to improve the use of their limbs, no matter how long ago their stroke occurred. Constraint Induced
Movement Therapy (CIT) has been proven to be over 95% successful in helping patients regain significant movement. Through
the use of one-on-one teaching, guidance and encouragement of a CIT trained and knowledgeable Physical Therapist, patients
can relearn to use their affected limb by restriciting the use of the unaffected one. By causing nerve cells to 'rewire'
themselves, Constraint Induced Movement Therapy not only changes the brain, it changes lives.*
* Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIT) is a family of treatments that teach the brain to 'rewire' itself following
a major injury such as stroke or head injury. This is based on research by Edward Taub, PhD and collaborators at the
University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB). They showed that patients can learn to improve the ability to move the weaker
parts of their bodies and thus cause to rely exclusively or primarily on the stronger extremities. This therapy has
significantly improved quality of movement and substantially increased the amount of use of the more-affected extremities
in the activities of daily living for a large majority of the patients who have received the treatment. It is the only
rehabilitation technique shown to produce a marked chagne in the brain and function.
In the November 1, 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Constraint Induced Movement Therapy
was proven to improve upper extemity function.
Alexander Garduque is the only Physical Therapist in the Tri-State Area to perform this technique. He was trained
by Dr. Edward Taub, who developed and teaches this technique.
