INTRODUCTION: The Constraint-induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) is a therapeutic which main goal is the functional recuperation of paretic upper extremity (UE) of stroke survivors by an intensive treatment, wear of restriction in non-paretic UE during 90% of activity day and by for the transfer package. OBJECTIVE: The main of this paper is to do a review between studies which compare the CIMT between other therapeutics. METHODS: Had been made an search between Medline, SciELO and ISI Web of Science with the principal word "constraint induced movement therapy" during the month of June of the 2008. RESULTS: We founded six articles where the CIMT was compared with therapeutics Bobath and Kabat. DISCUSSION: Inside the articles founded, we observed a variation between the population in each study, as by the outcomes to evaluate the therapeutics. CONCLUSION: The CIMT showed itself superior by the other therapeutics.

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