Deans' stroke musings: Effects of the Nerve Mobilization Technique on Lower Limb Function in Patients with Poststroke Hemiparesis

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.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Effects of the Nerve Mobilization Technique on Lower Limb Function in Patients with Poststroke Hemiparesis

No idea what sciatic nerve mobilization technique is so ask your doctor about it. That will at least tell you if your doctor knows anything newer than med school.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpts/26/7/26_jpts-2013-518/_article

Hyun-Kyu Cha¹⁾, Hyuk-Shin Cho²⁾, Jong-Duk Choi³⁾

1) Department of Physical Therapy, College of Kyungbuk, Republic of Korea 2) Department of Physical Therapy, Wonkwang Health Science University, Republic of Korea 3) Department of Physical Therapy, College of Natural Science, Daejeon University: 62 Daehak-ro, Dong-gu, Daejeon 300-716, Republic of Korea

Released on J-STAGE July 30, 2014

Keywords: Sciatic nerve mobilization, Foot pressure, Knee joint angle

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[Purpose] The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of a sciatic nerve mobilization technique on improvement of lower limb function in patient with poststroke hemiparesis. [Subjects] Twenty- two stroke patients participated in this study. [Methods] They were randomly selected based on selection criteria and divided into two groups. In the subject group (n=10), sciatic nerve mobilization with conventional physical therapy was applied to patients. In the control group (n=10), only conventional physical therapy was applied to stroke patients. [Results] There were significant differences between the two groups in pressure, sway, total pressure, angle of the knee joint, and functional reaching test results in the intervention at two weeks and at four weeks. [Conclusion] The present study showed that sciatic nerve mobilization with conventional physical therapy was more effective for lower limb function than conventional physical therapy alone in patient with poststroke hemiparesis.