Deans' stroke musings: A feasibility study to assess intralimb coordination in stroke rehabilitation: two indices of mechanical impedance by coactivation of agonist muscles

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, October 6, 2015

A feasibility study to assess intralimb coordination in stroke rehabilitation: two indices of mechanical impedance by coactivation of agonist muscles

I'm sure that someplace in here is some good information on how we can recover. But it is gobbledegook to me.
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Oku, Takanori ; Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, 560-8531, Japan ; Uno, Kanna ; Nishi, Tomoki ; Kageyama, Masayuki
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Stroke rehabilitation requires intralimb coordination to achieve natural movement after recovery. Focusing on mechanical impedance by the coactivation of agonist muscles, we performed two experiments to assess the intralimb coordination of a post-stroke subject using two indices of the endpoint stiffness and muscle synergies. The results of the first experiment showed that the endpoint stiffness of a post-stroke subject during posture maintenance estimated from muscle synergy analysis resembled that estimated from the mechanical perturbation method. Based on the validity of proposed muscle synergy analysis shown in the first experiment, the results of the second experiment revealed that muscle activities of both the post-stroke and healthy subjects are composed of three muscle synergies in the circle-tracing task. These muscle synergies were invariant despite being determined from time-variant muscle activities; muscle synergies of the post-stroke subject before rehabilitation were different from those of the healthy subject. In addition, the muscle synergies of the post-stroke subject after rehabilitation resembled those of the healthy subject. It is assumed that the post-stroke subject regained appropriate muscle synergies (i.e., the balance of mechanical impedance) after rehabilitation. This study tested the feasibility for practical uses in the assessment, diagnosis, and interventions for stroke rehabilitation using two indices of muscle synergies and endpoint stiffness.