Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

3d movements and stroke rehab

A new research center at Stanford will address mobility disorders with powerful 3-D simulations of a patient's movements
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/december/delp-movement-research-123010.html
I did have this done as part of a research study I was in on ankle movement but was not able to see those results. I could see an extremely important use for this for all PTs working with stroke gaits. And maybe then someone will be able to identify very specific small movements to work on. My first PTs could only demonstrate the correct way to walk and since my walking was pretty screwed up their admonitions didn't work.

Or if your therapist does not have quite such a high-tech item maybe this would work
Could Your Clinic Benefit From Slow Motion Video Analysis?

This does mean your therapist will have to get outside off their comfort zone because this would mean working on individual muscles rather than their training of complete functional movements.

In one of Uncle John's Readers my daughter told me that it took 200 muscles in order to walk. I just thought, 'Oh great, I have to relearn 100 of them'. But if these technologies could be used for hemiplegic gaits then they could tell me specifically which muscles are spastic and which ones are weak or missing. Well I can dream about the future of rehab. If only I was in charge.
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