Deans' stroke musings: Listening to classical music ameliorates unilateral neglect after stroke

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.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Listening to classical music ameliorates unilateral neglect after stroke

There has been years of research already proving that music listening post stroke improves recovery. What the hell will it take to get hospitals to provide it and researchers to stop researching it? A conspiracy theorist would say that the whole reason for not doing this is to keep being able to fully employ their therapists on staff. A result of pay for procedures rather than pay for performance.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J66967&phrase=no&rec=122771
American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) , Volume 67(3) , Pgs. 328-335.

NARIC Accession Number: J66967. What's this?
ISSN: 0272-9490.
Author(s): Tsai, Pei-Luen; Chen, Mei-Ching; Huang, Yu-Ting; Lin, Keh-Chung; Chen, Kuan-Lin; Hsu, Yung-Wen.
Publication Year: 2013.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Study explored whether listening to excerpts of classical music ameliorates unilateral neglect (UN) in stroke patients. In this within-subject study, 16 UN patients with a right-hemisphere stroke were tested under three conditions within 1 week. In each condition, participants were asked to complete three subtests of the Behavioral Inattention Test while listening to classical music, white noise, or nothing. All conditions and the presentation of the tests were counterbalanced across participants. Visual analog scales were used to provide self-reported ratings of arousal and mood. Results showed that participants generally had the highest scores under the classical music condition and the lowest scores under the silence condition. In addition, most participants rated their arousal as highest after listening to classical music. The findings suggest that listening to classical music(why not Kenny Rogers?) may improve visual attention in stroke patients with UN. Future research with larger study populations is necessary to validate these findings.
Descriptor Terms: ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDERS, MUSIC THERAPY, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, PERCEPTION, STROKE.

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