Deans' stroke musings: Wearable therapy

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.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Wearable therapy

I found this from Jen at Postcards from Therapy

Wearable therapy

It looks like another possibility for eStim that our therapists should be presenting to us. Not sure about the costs but I'm sure its not cheap.
NeuroProsthetic Systems are electrical stimulation devices that are worn on the body throughout the day to impart function to the limbs or trunk and substitute for the loss of function by generating muscle movements at appropriate times of sitting, standing, walking, and arm function. Patients with central nervous system injury or disorders are candidates for NeuroProsthetic devices. This technology can also, in certain circumstances, eliminate or reduce the need for bracing.