The purpose of this research is to establish an effective exercise regimen to produce necessary and sufficient blood supply to paralysis regions on motor-paralytics.
Subjects were patients who had hemiplegia (motor paralysis of one lateral half of the body), caused by cerebrovascular disease.
　The change of HbO₂ and Hb concentration in blood was determined at the unaffected side and the paralytic region. With the bending and stretching exercise, tolerance stimulation at the forearm was measured by making use of a near-infrared transmission. spectrometer (NIRO-500, Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.)
　The following results were obtained :
　1) As the result of the increased systemic circulation due to exercise tolerance stimulation, the oxygen metabolism had no obvious difference between the unaffected lateral side and the paralytic region.
　2) However, the order of the change at the paralytic region is smaller than that of the unaffected lateral side.
　3) Besides, it has become clear that the direct effect to the muscle of the paralytic region of motor-paralytics is more pronounced than the increase of systemic circulation.

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