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Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy Department of Psychology

CI Therapy Training Manuals & Publications


Patient Forms

  1. Initial Patient Letter
  2. Patient Information Form
  3. Video Instructions
  4. Prequently Asked Questions


Training Manuals

  1. Motor Activity Log (MAL) Manual
  2. Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) Manual
  3. Pediatric Motor Activity Log (PMAL) Manual
  4. Pediatric Arm Function Test (PAFT) Manual


Publications

  1. Taub, E., et al. (1994). An Operant Approach to Rehabilitation Medicine: Overcoming Learned Nonuse by Shaping. Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 61, 281-293.
  2. Taub, E., Uswatte, G., & Pidikiti, R. (1999). Constraint-induced movement therapy: A new family of techniques with broad application to physical rehabilitation- a clinical review.  Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 36, 237-251.
  3. Taub, E., Uswatte, G., & Elbert, T. (2002). New treatments in neurorehabilitation founded on basic research.Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3, 228-236.
  4. Mark, V. W. and Taub, E. (2002). Constraint-induced Movement Therapy for Chronic Stroke Hemiparesis and Other Disabilities. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 22, 317-336.
  5. Uswatte, G., Taub, E., Morris, D. M., Vignolo, M., & McCullough, K. (2005).  Reliability and validity of the upper-extremity Motor Activity Log-14 for measuring real-world arm use. Stroke, 36, 2496-2499.
  6. Uswatte, G., Foo, W. L., Olmstead, H., Lopez, K., Holand, A., & Simms, M. L. (2005). Ambulatory monitoring of arm movement using accelerometry: an objective measure of upper-extremity rehabilitation in persons with chronic stroke. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 86, 1498-1501.
  7. Taub, E., et al. (2005). AutoCITE: Automated Delivery of CI Therapy with Reduced Effort by Therapists. Stroke, 36, 1301-1304.
  8. Taub, E., Uswatte, G., King, D. K., Morris, D. M., Crago, J. E., & Chatterjee, A. (2006). A placebo controlled trial of Constraint-Induced Movement therapy for upper extremity after stroke. Stroke, 37, 1045-1049.
  9. Uswatte, G., Taub, E., Morris, D., Light, K., & Thompson, P. (2006). The Motor Activity Log-28: assessing daily use of the hemiparetic arm after stroke. Neurology, 67, 1189-1194.
  10. Morris, D. M., Taub, E., and Mark, V. W. (2006). Constraint-induced Movement Therapy: Characterising the Intervention Protocol. Eura Medicophys, 42, 257-268.
  11. Gauthier, L. V., Taub, E., Perkins, C., Ortmann, M., Mark, V. W., & Uswatte, G. (2008). Remodeling the brain: plastic structural brain changes produced by different motor therapies after stroke. Stroke, 39, 1520-1525.
  12. Gauthier, L., Taub, E., Mark, V. W., Perkins, C., Uswatte, G. (2009). Improvement after Constraint-Induced Movement therapy is independent of infarct location in chronic stroke patients.Stroke, 40, 2468-2472.
  13. Taub, E., Griffin, A., Uswatte, G., Gammons, K., Nick, J., & Law, C. R. (2011).Treatment of congenital hemiparesis with pediatric Constraint-Induced Movement therapy.Journal of Child Neurology 26, 1163-1173.
  14. Rickards, T., Taub, E., Sterling, C., Graham, M. J., Barghi, A., Uswatte, G., & Mark, V. W. (2012). Brain parenchymal fraction predicts motor improvement following intensive task-oriented motor rehabilitation for chronic stroke. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 30, 355-361.
  15. Gauthier, L. V., Taub, E., Mark, V. W., Barghi, A., & Uswatte, G. (2012). Atrophy of spared grey matter tissue predicts poorer motor recovery and rehabilitation response in chronic stroke. Stroke, 47, 453-57.
  16. Uswatte, G., Taub, E., Griffin, A., Vogtle, L., Rowe, J., & Barman, J. (2012). The Pediatric Motor Activity Log-Revised: assessing real-world arm use in children with cerebral palsy. Rehabilitation Psychology, 57, 149-158.
  17. Taub, E., Uswatte, G., Mark, V.W., Morris, D.M., Barman, J., Bowman, M.H., Bryson, C., Delgado, A., Bishop-McKay, S. (In press). Method for enhancing real-world use of a more-affected arm in chronic stroke: the transfer package of CI therapy. Stroke.
  18. Taub, E., & Uswatte, G. (2014). Importance for CP rehabilitation of transfer of motor improvement to everyday life. Pediatrics, 133, e215-e217.
  19. Uswatte, G., Taub, E., Bowman, M., Delgado, A., Bryson, C., Morris, D., McKay, S., Barman, J., & Mark, V. W. (In press). Upper-extremity rehabilitaion in stroke patients with plegic hands: randomized controlled trial of expanded Constraint-Induced Movement therapy. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.
  20. Uswatte, G., Taub, E., Lum, P., Brennan, D., Barman, J., Bowman, M., Taylor, A., McKay, S., Sloman, S. B., Morris, D., & Mark, V. W. (2021). Tele-rehabilitation of upper-extremity hemiparesis after stroke: proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial of in-home Constraint-Induced Movement therapy. Restorative Neurology and Nueroscience. 39, 303-318. doi: 10.3233/RNN-201100.