Motor rehabilitation of aphasic stroke patient:the possibility of Rood's approach

摘要

Aphasia is an acquired neurogenic language disorder that makes patients unable to comprehend or formulate language.Along with language impairment,patients suffering from aphasia face difficulties in reading,writing,and expressing themselves.The causes of aphasia are stroke,trauma,brain tumors,infections,and injury,particularly to the left hemisphere.About 20%of acute stroke cases in the world account for aphasia.Aphasia is categorized into:non-fluent and fluent forms.Non-fluent is further classified based on language and comprehension into:1)Broca’s aphasia,2)transcortical motor aphasia,3)global aphasia,and 4)transcortical mixed aphasia.