Deans' stroke musings: Feasibility and effects of patient-cooperative robot-aided gait training applied in a 4-week pilot trial.

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.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Feasibility and effects of patient-cooperative robot-aided gait training applied in a 4-week pilot trial.

Have your therapist explain this, especially the Borg scale.
http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J63956&phrase=no&rec=118919
Abstract: Study examined the feasibility of applying four weeks of patient-cooperative robot-aided gait rehabilitation to patients with stroke and incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Two individuals with chronic incomplete SCI and two with chronic stroke trained with the Lokomat gait rehabilitation robot which was operated in a new, patient-cooperative mode for a period of four weeks with four training sessions of forty-five minutes per week. At baseline and after two and after four weeks, walking function was assessed with the ten-meter walking test. Additionally, muscle activity of the major leg muscles, heart rate, and the Borg scale were measured under different walking conditions including a non-cooperative position control mode to investigate the short-term effects of patient-cooperative versus non-cooperative robot-aided gait training. Patient-cooperative robot-aided gait training was tolerated well by all subjects and performed without difficulties. The subjects trained more actively and with more physiological muscle activity than in a non-cooperative position-control mode. One subject showed a significant and relevant increase of gait speed after the therapy, the three remaining subjects did not show significant changes. Findings suggest that patient-cooperative robot-aided gait training is feasible in clinical practice. However, the limited number of subjects in this pilot trial did not permit valid conclusions on the effect of patient-cooperative robot-aided gait training on walking function.