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, October 1, 2013

Priming Before Physical Therapy Facilitates Stroke Rehab

You therapist should know what the hell this means.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/811870?src=rss
Bilateral priming facilitates upper-limb rehabilitation and accelerates recovery after stroke, a new study shows.
Through the use of a mechanical device designed for that purpose, the paretic hand is passively moved in a mirror-symmetric manner as the patient extends and flexes the nonparetic wrist.
"Bilateral priming has few contraindications, it takes little time to administer, and the device is portable and easy to use. You can easily integrate bilateral priming into your rehabilitation center," Winston Byblow, PhD, from the Centre for Brain Research, professor and deputy head of the Department of Sport and Exercise Science, and director of the Movement Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, reported. Dr. Byblow is a named inventor on the patent of the device.

The rest at the site with free registration including a picture of the device.
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  1. AmyOctober 2, 2013 at 6:40 PM

    That machine is cool. Same idea as mirror therapy. Using the good side to get the brain to use the bad side better.

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