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.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Reduced Upper Limb Sensation Impairs Mental Chronometry for Motor Imagery After Stroke

Ask your doctor to explain how to use this in your rehab.
So are they contradicting this? from April, 2011.

Mental Practice With Motor Imagery Does Not Help In Stroke Recovery

http://nnr.sagepub.com/content/26/5/470.abstract?etoc

Abstract

Background. Motor imagery (MI) is increasingly recognized as a treatment option after stroke, but not all stroke patients are able to perform MI. Objective. To examine if severe somatosensory deficits would affect MI ability. Methods. The Box and Block Test (BBT) was used to evaluate mental chronometry as 1 component of MI. Two groups of stroke patients and an age-matched healthy control group (CG) were studied. Patient group 1 (n = 10, PG1) had a severe somatosensory impairment on the affected side and PG2 (n = 10) had pure motor strokes. All subjects first performed the BBT in a mental and in a real version. The time needed to move 15 blocks from 1 side of the box to the other was measured. To compare the groups independently of their performance level, a (real performance − MI)/(real performance) ratio was calculated. Corticospinal excitability was measured by transcranial magnetic stimulation at rest and while the subjects performed an imagined pinch grip. Results. The CG performed the BBT faster than both patient groups, and PG1 was slower than PG2. MI ability was impaired in PG1 but only for the affected hand. Transcranial magnetic stimulation data showed an abnormally low MI-induced corticospinal excitability increase for the affected hand in PG1, but not in PG2. Conclusions. Severe somatosensory deficits impaired mental chronometry. A controlled study is necessary to clarify if these patients benefit at all from MI as an additional treatment.