Deans' stroke musings: Effects of repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation on normal or impaired motor control. A review.

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.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Effects of repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation on normal or impaired motor control. A review.

Spinal roots? Hmmm. I wonder which doctor I can ask that won't have a clue as to what this means. Repetitive premenstrual syndrome, not sure I want to be around that, sorry ladies.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24094911

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:

Repetitive magnetic stimulation at the periphery (rPMS), i.e. over spinal roots, nerves or muscles, represents a new painless and noninvasive approach that can contribute to motor recovery. This method is based on the assumption that, under rPMS, neural networks involved in motor control would be regulated by the large recruitment of proprioceptive afferents, with little activation of cutaneous receptors.

STUDY AIM:

This literature review dealing with rPMS after-effects on motor control aimed at better understanding the outcome measures and further discussing some possible involved mechanisms.

RESULTS:

Our literature search resulted in 13 studies that used different types of outcomes (neurophysiological, biomechanical, clinical) to test the influence of rPMS over spinal roots or muscles in healthy individuals and in persons with stroke or spinal disorders. Dynamic changes were reported post-rPMS, such as spasticity reduction and improvements of movement dynamics. Studies also brought about some interesting insights on the cortical plasticity associated with rPMS effects, such as the activation of fronto-parietal loops that may explain the post-rPMS improvement of motor planning.

CONCLUSIONS:

Due to the heterogeneous and scant literature on the topic, no conclusion can be drawn to date. However, the results encourage the concurrent testing of clinical, neurophysiological and biomechanical outcomes to investigate more precisely the relevance of rPMS in neurological rehabilitation.