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, October 3, 2012

Student Start-Up Company Develops Stroke Rehab App for iPad

Lets just let students work on stroke rehab, they haven't been conditioned yet that its impossible to get stroke rehab functioning as a business model.
http://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=11490
Students at four universities in Canada developed an iPad application and started a company to help stroke survivors perform rehabilitation exercises at home. StrokeLink, the name of the company and the app, was part of the 2012 Next 36 program, a Canadian entrepreneurial accelerator for start-ups founded by undergraduates.
The StrokeLink app offers stroke patients an interactive multimedia rehabilitation program they can follow any time of the day at home. The program uses photos, videos, text, and audio descriptions of exercises that engage and guide stroke patients. The program also lets patients set achievement goals for rehabilitation, lifestyle changes, and independence, as well as measures daily progress toward those goals.
Morgan Moe (pictured right), one of the company’s founders and current chief information officer, received a bachelors degree this year from University of Calgary in kinesiology while developing the app and founding the company. Moe is also a licensed emergency medical technician in Calgary.
“Following a stroke, there are so many barriers and challenges that patients and their families face that we want to create a one-stop information hub,” says Moe. “Our hope is that everyone who suffers a stroke will download and use StrokeLink as they leave the hospital and get the information and tools they need to help them on their road to recovery.”
StrokeLink’s founders were selected to took part in the 2012 class of The Next 36, a competitive, 16-week accelerator program for start-up Canadian companies founded by undergraduates and developing mobile Web applications. The Next 36 provides intense business training and mentorship, as well as up to $80,000 in seed funding.

2 comments:

  1. The app is only available in Canada. Sigh...One more reason to move to Canada.

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  2. "Lets just let students work on stroke rehab, they haven't been conditioned yet that its impossible to get stroke rehab functioning as a business model." - Great quote Dean!

    My name is Morgan, one of the founders of StrokeLink, and we are honoured to have a place here in your blog! We are very passionate about creating powerful resources for survivors because we know that what is currently available is far from adequate!

    Sandra - Not to worry! We plan on having StrokeLink available in the US as well.

    Please support us by
    1) Joining us on Facebook or Twitter or Signing up for our mailing list at www.strokelink.ca
    2) Sign a letter of support! http://ow.ly/egVie
    3) Join our Professional Network on LinkedIn to help us design StrokeLink http://ow.ly/egVkd

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