Deans' stroke musings: Effects of whole-body vibration on muscle architecture, muscle strength, and balance in stroke: A randomized controlled trial

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, January 14, 2014

Effects of whole-body vibration on muscle architecture, muscle strength, and balance in stroke: A randomized controlled trial

But why didn't they check for sensation and proprioception? Do they not know how to run a clinical trial? Does this negate this study?:

Efficacy of whole body vibration exercise in older people: a systematic review

The new study here;

http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J67257&phrase=no&rec=123058
American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , Volume 92(10) , Pgs. 881-888.

NARIC Accession Number: J67257. What's this?
ISSN: 0894-9115.
Author(s): Marin, Pedro J.; Ferrero, Cristina M.; Menendez, Hector; Martin, Juan; Herrero, Azael J..
Publication Year: 2013.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Study analyzed the effects of whole-body vibration on lower-limb muscle architecture, muscle strength, and balance in stroke patients over a period of 3 months. Twenty patients were randomly divided into two groups: an experimental group and a sham group. The experimental group received a whole-body vibration treatment, with an increase in frequency, sets, and time per set during 17 physical therapy sessions. The sham group performed the same exercises as the experimental group but was not exposed to vibration. Outcome variables included the muscle architecture (the rectus femoris, the vastus lateralis, and the medial gastrocnemius), the maximal isometric voluntary contraction of the knee extensors, and the Berg Balance Scale. There were no significant differences between the groups on the primary outcomes of lower-limb muscle architecture, muscle strength, and balance. Results suggest that whole-body vibration exercise does not augment the increase in neuromuscular performance and lower-limb muscle architecture induced by isometric exercise alone in stroke patients.