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Rehabilitation strategies for Korsakoff syndrome: Frenkel's exercise for lower limb

A therapist assisting a patient with Korsakoff syndrome in performing Frenkel’s exercise in standing and reaching for the objects to which the therapist points. Frenkel's exercises are a series of gradual progressive exercises designed to increase coordination and used to retrain proprioception, particularly focused on the lower limbs. (Source: Burile GC, Arya N, Seth NH, Fating T. Rehabilitation strategies for Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: physiotherapy interventions and management approaches. Cureus 2024;16[2]:e53948. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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