Deans' stroke musings: 3D rehabilitation system to improve arm function following stroke

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.

Friday, April 29, 2011

3D rehabilitation system to improve arm function following stroke

If you follow this thru the the full PDF you can see pictures of what they are doing, electrical stimulation with a supported arm.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pnp.191/abstract
Abstract
In the September/October 2009 issue of Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, we featured an article describing a promising new 2D robotic and electronic stimulation system developed at the University of Southampton for rehabilitation of arm movement following stroke. Here, the scientists who developed the system describe a further extension of the technique to a new 3D system known as SAIL (Stimulation Assistance through Iterative Learning). Copyright © 2011 Wiley Interface Ltd.

I really question the results being from the 3d part, Looking at the setup you can see that the arm is totally supported. That de-weighting of the arm is what I believe allows the patient to focus totally on the muscles necessary for the specified movement rather than needing to focus on shoulder muscles to hold up the arm. And I've already posted on the issues with even this kind of limited multitasking for survivors.