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.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Robotics offers new hope for stroke victims - Finland

I'm sure this will never get to the US because of cost.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/robotics_offers_new_hope_for_stroke_victims/7001287
This is just symptomatic of the problems in stroke research. They are looking for solutions in rehabilitation rather than the  stopping  of the neuronal cascade of death which could prevent  a lot of the disability in the first place. 


Neurosurgeons in Helsinki have teamed up with robotics experts to develop new ways of helping stroke patients. Their pioneering techniques are generating interest from doctors across the world.



Elektroniikan professori Raimo Sepponen sekä lääkäri Marja Hietanen seuraamassa aivoinfarktipotilaiden SALI-testihuoneen kokeilua.
Electronics professor Raimo Sepponen (centre) and Doctor Marja Hietanen demonstrate new methods of rehabilitation for stroke patients. Image: Yle
A new rehabilitation and diagnostic room at Helsinki University Hospital offers stroke patients opportunities above and beyond traditional pen and paper or onscreen tests. The floor of the SALI room has inbuilt sensors, as do the walls, and a patient's movement, response times, pathways and choices are all logged and evaluated.
"We are using different kind of stimuli, visual, auditive and movement, because this is actually what happens in everyday life situations,” says Dr Marja Hietanen from the hospital’s neuropsychology unit. “All the time we register information that comes via eyes, ears and movement."
Strokes affect some 15,000 people a year in Finland. What many don't realize is that a quarter are of working age. A fast and thorough recovery is valuable, not only for the individual, but also in terms of actively keeping people in the workforce.
Dr Hietanen teamed up with technical experts at Aalto University to develop a more hands-on approach to stroke patient care.

Rehab and entertainment

"It's very important that we think about people, how they get along in their everyday life and also if they are able to go back to work, for example, after a stroke," Hietanen says.
The collaboration was born two years ago when Professor of Electronics Raimo Sepponen and his team were developing an intelligent floor. It can tell when an elderly person or patient takes a fall, sending an alert to carers or even relatives.
For patients, it's both excellent rehab and great entertainment, and since the project is in the testing phase, the more data flowing in, the better.
"I have been contacted by people from Turkey and also from New Zealand who plan to cooperate with us and maybe build a similar system," Sepponen says.
In a world ever more brimming with stimuli, it's hoped that this patient-centred, multi-sensory approach will become the global standard.

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