Deans' stroke musings: Music therapy and cognitive rehabilitation: Screening of music cognition in adult patients with right hemisphere 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, January 9, 2016

Music therapy and cognitive rehabilitation: Screening of music cognition in adult patients with right hemisphere stroke

Research back from 2008 proving that music therapy works yet I bet there is not a single stroke hospital in the world that has developed a music protocol. Everything in stroke is a failure and needs to be destroyed so the stroke phoenix can rise from the ashes. Probably because everyone is so lazy they are waiting until SOMEONE ELSE HAS SOLVED THE PROBLEM?
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pmu/25/4/392/

Pfeiffer, Camila F.; Sabe, Liliana R.

Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, Vol 25(4), Dec 2015, 392-403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000123

Abstract

Music therapy (MT) can be applied to the functional recovery of patients who suffer from neurologic conditions. In this context, MT functions as part of a multidisciplinary treatment in neurologic rehabilitation. Stroke is among the most common causes of severe cognitive deficits, which have a negative impact on learning processes and rehabilitation outcomes. Consequently, everyday functioning can be severely limited. Although there is ample evidence for the effectiveness of MT in cognitive rehabilitation (Bradt, Magee, Dileo, Wheeler, & McGilloway, 2010; Gardiner & Thaut, 2014; Hedge, 2014; Moore, Peterson, O’Shea, McIntosh, & Thaut, 2008; Särkämö et al., 2008; Thaut et al., 2009; Thaut, 2010), there is a lack of specific music-based assessment tools that measure the effects of music on the cognitive functions typically affected by stroke. Responding to this need, we developed the Screening of Music and Cognition (SCM) assessment tool. In this pilot study, we used the SCM as an intake assessment of 15 adult inpatients with mild-to-severe cognitive disorders due to right hemisphere stroke; they were reassessed after 1 month of interdisciplinary treatment. This study sought to determine the clinical usefulness of music-based tasks in the assessment of cognitive functioning and to assess the SCM as a tool to evaluate the cognitive functioning of individuals with acquired brain injury. We found that the SCM is effective for gathering important information relevant to cognitive rehabilitation and contributes to an optimal treatment selection for this patient population. In addition, the SCM enables monitoring of patient’s progress over time.