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, January 8, 2013

NDT vs. MRP - A Comparison of Two Rehabilitation Therapies in the Elderly Stroke Population

Only 13 pages for your therapist to summarize for you.
You can check out Peter Levines' post on NDT here;
http://recoverfromstroke.blogspot.com/2013/01/neuro-developmental-treatment.html
The comparison here;
http://www.gerontologyindia.com/pdf/vol27-1.pdf#page=170
ABSTRACT
The rehabilitation of elderly patients living chronic stroke and
residing in long term care settings is an important clinical issue.
The purpose of this discussion paper is to compare
Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT) and the Motor Relearning
Programme (MRP) as rehabilitation methods post stroke and to
highlight the importance of specialized stroke rehabilitation for the
elderly living in long term care facilities. Both the NDT and MRP
rehabilitation methods can be used with acute and chronic stroke
patients. However, current research evidence does not clearly
identify which method is best when working with chronic stroke
patients. As such, controversy exists about the efficacy of NDT and
MRP. Both clinicians and researchers cannot agree which method is
superior and best suited for the stroke population regardless of
severity. It is important that more research is conducted in order to
determine the most appropriate rehabilitation method for the
elderly chronic stroke patient and to identify whether or not stroke
rehabilitation is adequately offered for the elderly residing in long
term care. Improving rehabilitation outcomes for the elderly living
in long term care should be a priority for those working with this
population.

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