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.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Post-stroke rehab: Turning patients into dolphins

A novel use of mental imagery. I bet no clinic in the US will use this. Pinko therapy you know.
http://www.rt.com/news/russia-stroke-rehab-dolphins-973/
Before her appointment as Russia’s new Health Minister, Veronika Skvortsova used to help post-stroke patients with paralysis to recuperate through an illusion of becoming… a dolphin.
­Research showed that through a virtually created illusion of moving like this marine mammal, a patient’s brain can be trained to regain control over the head and body. Together with two colleagues, Skvortsova offered post-stroke patients the chance to feel like dolphins with the help of special equipment.
A fully or partially paralyzed client dons a hi-tech helmet with special goggles and motion-sensing devices attached to the head, body and pelvis. With these, and computer software the patient receives the illusion of being plunged into water and moving like a dolphin.  
“Sometimes, the human brain may be restored through an illusion of its normal activity,” Skvortsova said to the Russian Moskovsky Komsomolets daily.
Virtual reality can be used to recreate a person’s motions, lost after a stroke or other serious trauma. Patients receive a full illusion of successive motion – from the first baby movements of turning on their belly to crawling and walking.
Patients sense submerging and swimming, and even see their limbs moving. The virtual sensations help the brain to gradually regain lost functions, strengthening the impression that it is in full health.
The intensity of the workload and the patient’s reaction are monitored by motion-sensing devices and further computer-analyzed to choose an optimal personal program.
“As a result, contacts between nerve cells are restored, which facilitate post-stroke rehabilitation,” explained the Minister.
Veronika Skvortsova graduated from the Second Moscow State Medical Institute, then took postgraduate courses in clinical studies and neurological disorders.  In 1994, Skvortsova was awarded the highest possible degree in neurology.
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