Rehabilitation methods for hemiplegia with inability to extend fingers include joint mobility training, pulling training, sensory stimulation training, physical therapy, and so on.
1. Joint activity training: the therapist or the patient’s healthy hand can assist the affected fingers to do stretching, finger splitting, flexion and extension of the metacarpophalangeal joints and wrist joints and other activities, in order to maintain the normal joint mobility of the various joints of the hand.
2. Pulling training: The therapist or the patient’s healthy hand can slowly pull the flexor muscles of the affected hand, or passive pulling through the finger splitter and other assistive devices, in order to reduce the muscle tension of the flexor muscles and promote the recovery of finger extension.
3. Sensory stimulation training: Commonly, cold stimulation or brushing stimulation is given to the wrist and the dorsal side of the hand to reduce muscle spasm.
4. Physiotherapy: In conjunction with the patient’s active finger extension movements, neuromuscular electrical stimulation is applied to the finger extensor muscles on the affected side to promote the recovery of the patient’s active finger extension movements.
It is recommended that patients with hemiplegia who cannot extend their fingers should seek medical treatment in time, and under the guidance of professional doctors and therapists to carry out scientific treatment, so as to avoid the adverse consequences.