Deans' stroke musings: Wolf motor function test for characterizing moderate to severe hemiparesis in stroke patients

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

Wolf motor function test for characterizing moderate to severe hemiparesis in stroke patients

I'm sure your therapists can decipher this to your benefit.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J64923&phrase=no&rec=120157
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , Volume 93(11) , Pgs. 1963-1967.

NARIC Accession Number: J64923. What's this?
ISSN: 0003-9993.
Author(s): Hodics, Timea M.; Nakatsuka, Kyle; Upreti, Bhim; Smith, Patricia S.; Pezzullo, John C..
Publication Year: 2012.
Number of Pages: 5.
Abstract: Study investigated the validity of using the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) to describe the residual functional abilities of moderate-to-severely affected stroke patients. Data were collected as part of 2 double-blind, sham-controlled, randomized interventional studies. Thirty-two stroke patients with moderate to severe hemiparesis were evaluated with the upper extremity Fugl-Meyer (UFM) and the WMFT in the same setting before treatment. WMFT scores were calculated using (1) median performance times and (2) a new calculation using the mean rate of performance. Researchers compared the distribution of values from the 2 methods and examined the correlation between the WMFT and UFM for the traditional and the new calculation. WMFT rate values were more evenly distributed across their range than median WMFT time scores. The association between the WMFT rate and UFM was as good as the association between the median WMFT time scores and UFM. The results indicate that the new WMFT mean rate of performance is valid and a more sensitive measure in describing the functional activities of the moderate-to-severely affected upper extremity of stroke subjects and avoids the pitfalls of the median WMFT time calculations.