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A Casereport Of Speech Therapy Combined With Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation In Patients With Global Aphasia, Shih-Chen Lai, Yan-Ting Lin, Long-Wei Dai

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

For patients with stroke-induced aphasia, speech therapy is the most common speech rehabilitation program. In recent years, increasing empirical discussions have been conducted on the application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in treating stroke-related comorbidities; however, such discussions are lacking in Chinese. The present casereport investigated a patient with global aphasia who received frequent sessions of conventional speech therapy (2.5 hours per week) in conjunction with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (5 sessions per week). The total intervention period was 6 months. The Concise Chinese Aphasia Test was used to conduct a pretest and posttest before and after the intervention. This …