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.

Friday, August 23, 2013

FES on Improving Foot-Drop Gait in Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: A Review on Technology and Clinical Efficacy

Your PT can determine whether this will change anything in your stroke protocol.
http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/4b27cbfc562e21b8,forthcoming,7621.html

sukanta sabut
MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Sangeeta D Bhattacharya
School of Medical Science & Technology, IIT Kharagpur
Manjunatha Mahadevappa
School of Medical Science & Technology, IIT Kharagpur

ABSTRACT

This review presents the technical developments and clinical applications of functional electrical stimulation (FES) in recovery of gait and motor functions in post-stroke rehabilitation. The method reviewed includes the incidence of stroke, stimulator design, brain-computer interfaces (BCI) based FES system, clinical applications of FES in recovery of gait and motor functions. Developments of different types of foot drop stimulator are reviewed starting with hard-wired and microprocessor-based surface stimulator systems. The replacement of foot switch by the use of artificial and �natural� sensors as the primary control in drop foot stimulators is reviewed. We also evaluated the clinical effects of FES applications in gait, motor control and functional abilities compared to conventional therapy alone during post-stroke rehabilitation. The literature suggests that the FES has a positive therapeutic effect when combined with the conventional rehabilitation program (CRP), on recovery of gait, motor functions, energy cost and functional abilities in subjects with stroke. In conclusion, we recommend that FES could be used as therapy along with the CRP in post-stroke rehabilitation process. Future research would make possible the design of cost effective FES system and the analysis of applications of FES in stroke subjects to optimize the rehabilitation process. We argued the need for rigorous technological development, clinical studies, and collaboration between clinicians and engineers for FES system.

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