Deans' stroke musings: Is Medical Exercise Therapy the Missing Link You’ve Been Looking For?

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.

What this blog is for:

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.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Is Medical Exercise Therapy the Missing Link You’ve Been Looking For?

Not sure how applicable this is to stroke rehab but I liked the small increments changes in weight/position.
http://pttalker.com/2011/10/is-medical-exercise-therapy-the-missing-link-you%e2%80%99ve-been-looking-for/
See the machine at the url.
Originally founded by Oddvar Holten in Norway, Medical Exercise Therapy (MET) aims to provide patients with the most appropriate exercises throughout the entire treatment and healing cycle. To further discuss Medical Exercise Therapy, Nate Kloosterman PT, DPT and Frank Aerts, PT, CMPT of MET Seminars USA joins PT Talker in this week’s podcast.

Aerts started using MET 20 years ago and became familiar with it through training in Europe. The principles of medical exercise therapy are used in most European countries and are slowly gaining acceptance here. The MET system uses pulley systems and weight equipment that work with smaller increments than traditional equipment. The weights can be increased in increments as small as a ¼ pound or in grams. These super sensitive machines allows patients to increase weight in small increments to provide the right resistance to aid in the healing process

Kloosterman feels a true therapeutic exercise component is missing from the physical therapy programs offered in the United States. He believes MET addresses both exercise and function and works as the perfect adjunct to modalities and manual therapy. He would like to see MET as a part of the techniques embraced by physical therapists throughout the country. To learn more about Medical Exercise Therapy, listen to the full podcast now.