Deans' stroke musings: Applications of inertial sensors in medicine: towards model-based rehabilitation of stroke

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.

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Applications of inertial sensors in medicine: towards model-based rehabilitation of stroke

With an objective rendering of incorrect movements due to the stroke our therapists should easily be able to map which muscles are firing wrong and apply protocols to correct those individual movements. Rather than the impossible to follow, 'that movement is wrong', or ' Walk this way'.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896315008502

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.07.075

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Abstract

Present work introduces to the concept of a quantitative assessment of stroke rehabilitation using an inverse dynamical analysis and inertial sensors for measurement of motor functions in a clinical setting. The application in medicine gives possibilities to evaluate quantitatively damaged motor functions via instrumented analysis thus proposing an additional tool for monitoring of rehabilitation process with a larger accuracy. The paper presents a simplified dynamical model of an upper extremity which allows estimating joint torques via inverse dynamics from measured arm's kinematics. The model serves as an initial step going towards patient-specific model-based rehabilitation in the future.