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.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Saebo Launches New Biofeedback/Stim Device

I know this is commercialization but this is interesting.
http://e2.ma/message/xosne/h0m6cc
This line is interesting.

What is the Patent Pending Reciprocal EMG

Triggered Stimulation (RETS) Program?

The RETS (Reciprocal EMG Triggered Stimulation) program is ideal for clients with increased tone that have difficulty relaxing the spastic muscles. The biofeedback stimulation program involves both the agonist and antagonist muscles and is triggered upon relaxation of a muscle instead of activation.

Stimulation is triggered to the desired muscle group (i.e., finger extensors, elbow extensors, etc.) once the client relaxes the opposing hypertonic muscle group (i.e., spastic finger flexors, elbow flexors, etc). Therefore, the emphasis is placed on relaxing the hypertonic muscles in order for stimulation to be triggered to the opposing weakened muscle group.

Is it even possible to willfully relax the tonic muscles? I'd love to see the research on that.