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, September 17, 2015

Mirror therapy for severe hemiparesis in the acute phase of stroke recovery: A pilot study utilizing a brief interventional protocol

When the fuck are our stroke medical professionals going to take charge and create a publicly written protocol for mirror therapy? This has been circulating for years. Who the hell is going to step up to the plate and write one?
Matt Lopez, president of the NSA?
Dr. Mariel Jessup, president of the ASA?
WSO President - Steve Davis (Australia)?

http://gradworks.umi.com/15/94/1594781.html

by Soles, Will, M.S., STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2015, 76 pages; 1594781

Abstract:
The debilitating effects of strokes continue to be a public health concern. Hemiparesis of the upper extremity (UE) associated with this condition is a disabling long-term result that continues to be a rehabilitation focus for occupational therapy (OT) practitioners. Mirror therapy (MT) is an emerging method used by therapists to address UE hemiparesis. Despite its expanded use, much is still not known about MT, including when in the rehabilitation process it is best to use and what methods will result in a beneficial outcome. This pilot study investigated the effect of a brief (2 week in duration) MT protocol for improving severe hemiparesis, as compared to a control protocol of UE bilateral exercise. Recruitment of participants from an acute population of stroke survivors in an inpatient rehabilitation setting (n=3) was not sufficient to complete the planned statistical comparison. However, information about protocol design was gleaned from this study’s results, which could prove valuable for future studies. From this information, an alternative protocol was developed and is provided to advance research into the use of MT as an intervention in acute inpatient stroke rehabilitation. The proposed MT protocol utilizes a task-based approach well suited to the profession of OT.
AdviserMary M. Matteliano
SchoolSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsPhysical therapy; Occupational therapy; Public health
Publication Number1594781

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