Deans' stroke musings: Motor rehabilitation after stroke: Evidence-based practice and translational research

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, April 22, 2012

Motor rehabilitation after stroke: Evidence-based practice and translational research

I'm only referring to this paper because of the Myoton.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.hindawi.com/journals/srt/aip/810706.pdf&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAEoBDABOAFAlofQ_ARIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=EIt907vS6NU&usg=AFQjCNFD56H6cueMY65N-YSvXZGdle8AEA
This is the only interesting paragraph:
Chuang and colleagues’ study of instrument evaluation examined the reliability of
Myoton-3 myometer, a tool used to quantify muscle tone, elasticity, and stiffness in
stroke patients. This study provided evidence for the psychometric soundness of
myotonometric measurement. Also included in this special issue are two systematic
reviews of optimal dosage of stroke motor rehabilitation.
instructions.
I've never heard of this.
Here is a 24 page paper on its uses for tone,etc.
http://www.diasu.com/Site%20Eng/bibliografia/Instructions_Rehabilitation.pdf
I think this is similar to the myovision, you can read about the quackery of that one here:
quackery
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/04/myovision-scans-and-chiropractic.html
and here:
http://www.chirobase.org/06DD/semg.html
The myton device website here
http://www.myoton.com/en/Technology
Notice this line at the bottom

The MyotonPRO device IS TO BE USED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY and is not for use in clinical, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures!

Good luck and happy sniggering.