Deans' stroke musings: Design Factors of Virtual Environments for Upper Limb Motor Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

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, November 22, 2014

Design Factors of Virtual Environments for Upper Limb Motor Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

Your hospital can just buy the damn article and implement it. They don't even have to think which is a good thing since your hospital hasn't spent any time in the last 30 years figuring out how to get stroke survivors rehabbed better. I expect hundreds of hospitals responding back with the details of their stroke protocols.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2676700
Stroke survivors are often left with motor disabilities. Virtual environments for motor therapy are an emerging strategy to motivate, entertain or engage the rehabilitation patient to the therapy after stroke. The design of these specialized virtual environments requires to meet the needs of patients and therapists, which is not a simple task. To support the design of these applications a number of recommendations for the developers have been proposed in literature. Here, a taxonomy is proposed to classify the identified principles, criteria, implications, usability factors or guidelines on which the recommendations are based. The taxonomy identifies key factors in the design of virtual environments for upper limb motor therapy. The taxonomy is organized into three categories corresponding to different stages of the therapy: configuration of the exercise, assistance during the execution of the exercise and management of therapy results. We believe that agglutinating and organizing design factors into a taxonomy may reduce development times, facilitate communication between developers and clinical counterparts and increase chances of therapeutic validity.

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Authors:	Cristina Ramírez-Fernández	Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, México
	Alberto L. Morán	Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, México
	Eloísa García-Canseco	Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, México
	Felipe Orihuela-Espina	Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, México

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	MexIHC '14 Proceedings of the 5th Mexican Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
	Pages 22 ACM New York, NY, USA ©2014 table of contents ISBN: 978-1-4503-3285-9 doi>10.1145/2676690.2676700