Deans' stroke musings: Prescription for recovery? Researchers determine ideal DOSE of exercise to improve walking, thinking and quality of life after 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.

Monday, October 5, 2015

Prescription for recovery? Researchers determine ideal DOSE of exercise to improve walking, thinking and quality of life after stroke

I think the ideal dose is 'A lot more than any therapist is willing to give you'. I'd suggest 8 hours a day, that way you could get in 10,000 hours of exercise in only 1250 days. And since you probably have lots of muscles to recover you have lots of batches of 1250 days to complete.
http://www.canadianstroke.ca/en/news/prescription-for-recovery-researchers-determine-ideal-dose-of-exercise-to-improve-walking-thinking-and-quality-of-life-after-stroke/

Determining Optimal post-Stroke Exercise (DOSE) trial is the first study to control for exercise intensity and dose early after stroke. Preliminary data have found that individuals post-stroke in in-patient rehabilitation programs may be able to tolerate more exercise during their day. Funded by the HSF Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery and led by researchers in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto, the goal of the DOSE trial is determine the appropriate exercise prescription to promote optimal recovery in the early phase after stroke. The first phase of the study assigned 20 stroke patients to one of three groups: usual care physical therapy, usual care physical therapy replaced by an hour of physical therapy emphasizing aerobic and walking exercise, or usual care physical therapy replaced by two hours of physical therapy emphasizing aerobic and walking exercise. Preliminary data have shown that patients can tolerate a daily, two-hour intensive physical therapy exercise program emphasizing walking and aerobic exercise during inpatient rehabilitation. The DOSE trial will recruit a total of 75 participants and investigate how exercise may improve walking, cognition, and quality of life in stroke patients at a critical stage of rehabilitation and recovery.
Principal investigators: Janice Eng at UBC, Sean Dukelow at U of Calgary and Mark Bayley at Toronto Rehab.