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.

Monday, August 26, 2013

Relationship between therapists' years of experience and Functional Independence Measure gain and efficiency in stroke rehabilitation

What do your therapists have to say about this research?
The conclusion doesn't match up with the results.
http://square.umin.ac.jp/jjcrs/2013_55-60e.pdf
ABSTRACT
Kawasaki Y, Tsuchida Y, Yamaga M, Koga H,
Nakamura T, Nose Y, Iiyama J. Relationship between
therapists’ years of experience and Functional
Independence Measure gain and efficiency in stroke
rehabilitation. Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci 2013; 55
-
60.
Objective:
This study aimed to clarify whether or not
the years of experience of physical therapists (PTs)
and occupational therapists (OTs) influences
rehabilitation treatment results as quantified using the
Functional Independence Measure (FIM).
Methods:
The subjects were PTs and OTs who took
care of 354 cerebrovascular accident (CVA) patients.
With motor FIM gain and motor FIM efficiency as the
evaluation scales, the following three combinations
were evaluated: 1) FIM gain and efficiency on
transfers, locomotion, and stairs, and PTs’ years of
experience; 2) FIM gain and efficiency in eating,
grooming, bed bath, dressing, toilet behavior, urination
management, and defecation management, and OTs’
years of experience; and 3) motor FIM gain and motor
FIM efficiency on all items and years of experience
(PTs’ + OTs’). Results were analyzed using simple
regression, multiple regression, and stratified simple
regression.
Results:
A weakly positive relationship was observed
between a PT’s years of experience and motor FIM
gain in moderately impaired patients. No relationship
was observed between an OT’s years of experience
and motor FIM gain. There was no relationship
between years of experience and motor FIM efficiency.
Conclusion:
These results suggest that activities of
daily living involving the lower limbs are influenced
by a PT’s years of experience.(Why? the results don't suggest that?)

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