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, June 28, 2012

Stroke Rehab: 2 Sides Better Than 1

I wonder if this is being taught in therapist classes? Who is going to translate this into an actual therapy protocol that do-it-yourself patients can follow?
http://www.thirdage.com/health-wellness/stroke-rehab-2-sides-better-than-1
Although strokes typically affect only one side of the body, rehabilitation appears to work best when both sides of the body are engaged. A study done by Ken Takitama of the University of Tokyo and Masato Okada of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako, Japan, found that the two-sided approach was especially important in getting functioning back in a weakened arm and hand. Recovery of movement in the upper limb usually lags behind that of the leg and foot.
The authors wrote that their study "suggests that bimanual movement facilitates the reorganization of a damaged motor cortex because this movement induces rotations in the preferred directions (PDs) of motor cortex neurons . . . Although previous computational studies investigated the unimanual movements of stroke patients, individuals often move their arms bimanually. Bimanual movement is effective for the recovery of paretic [partially paralyzed] arm movement . . . Rotations of the encoding PDs facilitate cortical reorganization."
Also important to note, several other studies have shown that, as with any motor skill, practice makes perfect when it comes to stroke rehabilitation. Patients who diligently repeat therapeutic movements tend to recover more movement than those who are not as hard-working.

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