Deans' stroke musings: A mirror therapy-based action observation protocol to improve motor learning 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.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

A mirror therapy-based action observation protocol to improve motor learning after stroke.

You'll have to have your doctor deliniate what specifically this looks like because Mirror therapy and action observation can be completely separate. Your doctor/therapist/hospital should create a stroke protocol on this.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J72102&phrase=no&rec=128896
NARIC Accession Number: J72102. What's this?
ISSN: 1545-9683.
Author(s): Harmsen, Wouter J.; Bussmann, Johannes B. J.; Selles, Ruud W.; Hurkmans, Henri L. P.; Ribbers, Gerard M..
Publication Year: 2015.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Study investigated whether a mirror therapy-based action observation (AO) protocol contributes to motor learning of the affected arm after stroke. A total of 37 participants in the chronic stage after stroke were randomly allocated to the AO or control observation (CO) group. Participants were instructed to perform an upper-arm reaching task as fast and as fluently as possible. All participants trained the upper-arm reaching task with their affected arm alternated with either AO or CO. Participants in the AO group observed mirrored video tapes of reaching movements performed by their unaffected arm, whereas participants in the CO group observed static photographs of landscapes. The experimental condition effect was investigated by evaluating the primary outcome measure: movement time (in seconds) of the reaching movement, measured by accelerometry. Movement time decreased significantly in both groups: 18.3 percent in the AO and 9.1 percent in the CO group. The decrease in movement time was significantly more in the AO compared with the CO group (mean difference = 0.14 seconds). The results of this study suggest that a mirror therapy-based AO protocol contributes to motor learning after stroke.