Deans' stroke musings: Rehabilitation professionals’ perceptions of the use of new visualisation software tools with people with 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.

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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.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Rehabilitation professionals’ perceptions of the use of new visualisation software tools with people with stroke

Who the fuck cares about perceptions? Survivors want results, research that instead of this waste of time and money. This is what happens when we have NO stroke strategy.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/17483107.2015.1111941

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DOI:: 10.3109/17483107.2015.1111941

Claire Ballinger^a^*, Anne Taylor^b, David Loudon^c & Alastair S. Macdonald^c

pages 139-149

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Received: 27 Mar 2015
Accepted: 20 Oct 2015
Published online: 06 Jan 2016

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Abstract

Purpose: The envisage programme of research was funded to explore and evaluate the use of visualisation software tools using biomechanical data within rehabilitation. Three work packages were developed to evaluate the impact of the tools within stroke rehabilitation. The research presented here aimed at exploring the perceptions of rehabilitation therapists about the use of the visualisation software tools in the context of future randomised controlled trials and stroke rehabilitation practice.

Methods: Sixteen therapists working in a range of stroke rehabilitation contexts participated in semi-structured interviews. Interview questions explored their current practice, and the perceived impact of the new visualisation technologies on their workplace environment and practice. Framework analysis was used to analyse the textual data.

Results: In general, the stroke therapists were enthusiastic about the potential application of the visualisation software tools. Three themes were identified through qualitative framework analysis: potential uses of the visualisation tools; integration within current service provision; and trial involvement.

Conclusions: The study highlights important contextual considerations which may impact significantly on the success of novel technologies in stroke rehabilitation. Normalisation process theory was proposed as a useful process evaluation methodology to optimise both trial evaluation and future service implementation.

Implications for Rehabilitation
There is limited research exploring the use of visual software technologies featuring biomechanical data within stroke rehabilitation.
The perspectives of stroke rehabilitation therapists about the potential of such tools are useful both in terms of planning trial evaluations, and implementation.
Therapists were generally positive about the contribution of visual software tools in stroke rehabilitation, but highlighted a number of practical constraints which required addressing.
Normalisation process theory provides a useful process evaluation methodology which can support both trial evaluation and implementation of such novel technologies within stroke rehabilitation.