Deans' stroke musings: Portable virtual reality rehab for stroke victims

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, December 13, 2013

Portable virtual reality rehab for stroke victims

And when will your hospital start using newer technologies like this? Do they even know such technologies exist?

I still like the cockroach stomping game

PolyU-developed "KineLabs" Adds Fun to Stroke Rehabilitation and Elderly Exercise

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-portable-virtual-reality-rehab-victims.html
A portable virtual reality device improves neuroplasticity for quicker recovery. It is conquering hospitals around the world. It is being validated by the CHUV hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland and soon by the Stanford Stroke Center in the United States.

The Mindmaze platform, developed by a spin-off of the EPFL, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, is the first to enable the rehabilitation and personalized tracking of people affected by a stroke through fun and stimulating virtual reality exercises. The patient can practice alone, pause to recover, and resume as many times as necessary. It is now possible to maximize hours of training per day to ensure a better recovery. The device, named MindPlayPRO, also allows clinicians and caregivers to effectively handle several patients simultaneously. The start-up is set to receive a second Business Angels investment of half a million Swiss francs after the 2.7 million collected in 2012. It is also poised to complete a major round of financing.
Placed at the patient's bedside, the MindPlayPRO system has two screens on articulated arms. Caregivers can program the machine and obtain data from a high-resolution camera and track patient progress. The patient screen shows the 3D avatar of the patient with an exercise to perform – for example, to hit a target at the middle of a colored circle. The accuracy required can be adapted according to the patient's specific challenges. Just as with video games, successfully completing a task wins points. New cognitive exercises are being developed, which increase the gameplay along with the sophistication of training. The results allow both the medical team and the patient to track progress and adjust tasks accordingly.

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