Deans' stroke musings: Augmented Reflection Technology for Stroke Rehabilitation

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.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Augmented Reflection Technology for Stroke Rehabilitation – A clinical feasibility study

Once again down under shows their stroke rehab chops.
http://www.hci.otago.ac.nz/pubs/2012_Hoermann_etal._ICDVRAT2012.pdf
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a clinical feasibility study of a novel Augmented Reflection Technology
system, called TheraMem. The feasibility of the system for physical rehabilitation of the upper
limb and the potential to improve motor impairments following stroke were evaluated. Five
patients participated in a total of 20 sessions of upper limb training with the system. Tailored
support for patients performing the exercises was provided based on the severity and level of
their impairment. Various configurations of the system were evaluated and adjusted to best
match the patient’s preferences as well as the therapeutic requirements. We found that all
patients were able to successfully participate and complete the TheraMem intervention.
Patients’ engagement and motivation was high over the course of the therapy sessions.

Pictures at this url;
http://www.chinz2012.otago.ac.nz/demos/CHINZ2012_TheraMem_Demo.pdf