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, December 7, 2015

Exercise Increases Brain Plasticity

Repeating similar research proving that exercise helps neuroplasticity is an exercise in fucking stupidity. We've known about this for years. Coming up with exact exercise protocols instead would be worthwhile.

Physical exercise as a diagnostic, rehabilitation and preventive tool: Influence on neuroplasticity and motor recovery after stroke June 2015

 

New framework for rehabilitation – fusion of cognitive and physical rehabilitation: the hope for dancing  Feb. 2015

 

Your Brain On Exercise: 30 Minutes Of Physical Activity Makes Your Brain More ‘Plastic’  October 2014

 

Recognising neuroplasticity in musculoskeletal rehabilitation: a basis for greater collaboration between musculoskeletal and neurological physiotherapists  January 2014

 

Two types of exercise-induced neuroplasticity in congenital hemiparesis: a transcranial magnetic stimulation, functional MRI, and magnetoencephalography study  August 2013

 

A single bout of aerobic exercise promotes motor cortical neuroplasticity     March 2013

And the latest here:

Exercise Increases Brain Plasticity

A new study published in Current Biology states that exercise may enhance the plasticity of the adult brain.
Alessandro Sale, of the National Research Council’s Neuroscience Institute, previously conducted research that showed rats running on a wheel exhibited elevated levels of plasticity in the visual cortex and improved recovery from amblyopia when compared with sedentary animals.
Building on that, Sale and Claudia Lunghi, of the Univ. of Pisa, wanted to see if the phenomenon carried over to humans.
Brain plasticity is often greatest during early life. According to the Univ. of Washington, “At birth, each neuron in the cerebral cortex has approximately 2,500 synapses. By the time an infant is two or three years old, the number of synapses is approximately 15,000 synapses per neuron. This amount is about twice that of the average adult brain.”
Using 20 adults, Sale and Lunghi employed binocular rivalry to measure the residual plastic potential of the adult visual cortex. When one eyes is covered for a short period of time, the closed eye strengthens as the brain attempts to compensate for the lack of vision. The resulting imbalance is a measure of the brain’s visual plasticity.
In their experiment, Sale and Lunghi outfitted adults with an eyepatch and had them watch a movie. One group remained sitting in a chair while watching the movie, while the other group exercised for 10 min intervals on a stationary bike.
“We found that if, during the two hours of eye patching, the subject intermittently cycles, the perceptual effect of eye patching on binocular rivalry is stronger compared to a condition in which, during the two hours of patching, the subject watches a movie while sitting on a chair,” the researchers said. “That is, after physical activity, the eye that was patched is strongly potentiated, indicating increased levels of brain plasticity.”
Though more research is needed, the team believes an inhibitory neurotransmitter called GABA decreases during exercise, allowing the brain to become more responsive.
Further, the research could help treat adults with amblyopia. Amblyopia, or lazy eye, can be remedied during early age with vision therapy. As brain plasticity decreases with age, treating amblyopia becomes more difficult.
“Our study suggests that physical activity, which is also beneficial for the general health of the patient, could be used to increase the efficiency of the treatment in adult patients,” said Lunghi. “So, if you have a lazy eye, don’t be lazy yourself.”

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