Does it take multiple publishings before the stroke world sits up and takes notice of research?
From Jan. 2012 is this published research. That should have been enough time for all therapy departments to have dozens of videos for their stroke patients.
Clinical Relevance of Action Observation in Upper-Limb Stroke Rehabilitation: A Possible Role in Recovery of Functional Dexterity. A Randomized Clinical Trial
The latest one here;
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/261826.php
A new study finds that stroke
patients' brains show strong cortical motor activity when observing
others performing physical tasks - a finding that offers new insight
into stroke rehabilitation.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a team of
researchers from USC monitored the brains of 24 individuals - 12 who had
suffered strokes and 12 age-matched people who had not - as they
watched others performing actions made using the arm and hand that would
be difficult for a person who can no longer use their arm due to stroke
- actions like lifting a pencil or flipping a card.
The researchers found that while the typical brain responded to the
visual stimulus with activity in cortical motor regions that are
generally activated when we watch others perform actions, in the
stroke-affected brain, activity was strongest in these regions of the
damaged hemisphere, and strongest when stroke patients viewed actions
they would have the most difficulty performing.
Activating regions near the damaged portion of the brain is like
exercising it, building strength that can help it recover to a degree.
"Watching others perform physical tasks leads to activations in motor
areas of the damaged hemisphere of the brain after stroke, which is
exactly what we're trying to do in therapy," said Kathleen Garrison,
lead author of a paper on the research. "If we can help drive plasticity
in these brain regions, we may be able to help individuals with stroke
recover more of the ability to move their arm and hand."
Garrison, who completed this research while studying at USC and is
currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Yale University School of
Medicine, worked with Lisa Aziz-Zadeh of the USC Brain and Creativity
Institute and the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational
Therapy; Carolee Winstein, director of the Motor Behavior and
Neurorehabilitation Laboratory in the Division of Biokinesiology and
Physical Therapy at USC; and former USC doctoral student Sook-Lei Liew
and postdoctoral researcher Savio Wong.
Their research was posted online ahead of publication by the journal Stroke.
Using action-observation in stroke rehabilitation has shown promise in
early studies, and this study is among the first to explain why it may
be effective.
"It's like you're priming the pump," Winstein said. "You're getting
these circuits engaged through the action-observation before they even
attempt to move." The process is a kind of virtual exercise program for
the brain that prepares you for the real exercise that includes the
brain and body.
The study also offers support for expanding action-observation as a
therapeutic technique - particularly for individuals who have been
screened using fMRI and have shown a strong response to it.
"We could make videos of what patients will be doing in therapy, and
then have them watch it as homework," Aziz-Zadeh said. "In some cases,
it could pave the way for them to do better."
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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.
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