Deans' stroke musings: Effects of fast functional exercise on muscle activity after stroke

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.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Effects of fast functional exercise on muscle activity after stroke

When I was getting therapy there was absolutely nothing I could do fast, even now I can't.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J64900&phrase=no&rec=120134
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair , Volume 26(8) , Pgs. 968-975.

NARIC Accession Number: J64900. What's this?
ISSN: 1545-9683.
Author(s): Gray, Vicki L.; Ivanova, Tanya D.; Garland, S. Jayne.
Publication Year: 2012.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Study examined the effects of a single session of fast functional movements on muscle activation and the speed of movement in participants with stroke. Thirty-two individuals with stroke and 32 age- and sex-matched controls performed a single session of 50 fast squats and steps. Electromyographic (EMG) activity was measured bilaterally in the rectus femoris (RF), biceps femoris (BF), tibialis anterior (TA), and soleus muscles. The average EMG area and the movement speed were calculated over 10 trials. The effect of exercise was determined as the change from the second set (start) to the last set (end) of 10 trials. Results showed that the stroke group had significant increases in EMG area of the TA, BF, and RF during the squatting exercise. There was an increase in EMG area of the RF and BF when the paretic leg was stepping. Improvements in EMG area of the soleus and RF when the paretic leg was in stance accompanied increases in EMG area when the nonparetic leg was stepping. There was a trend for improved movement speed for both exercises. These findings suggest that a single session of exercises emphasizing speed of movement can be used to improve muscle activation in people with mild to moderately severe strokes.