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.

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

'Bionic spinal cord' helps stroke victims walk again: Brain implant lets patients control an exoskeleton using their MIND

I'm assuming this wouldn't work for me since my motor and premotor cortex are dead. Secondly they don't refer to being able to overcome spasticity.  I wonder if the title is wrong and this is supposed to be for spinal cord injuries.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3437375/Bionic-spinal-cord-help-stroke-victims-walk-Brain-implant-lets-patients-control-exoskeleton-using-MIND.html?
  • Australian researchers developed the paperclip-sized brain implant
  • It records brain activity and converts the signals to move an exoskeleton
  • 'Revolutionary' device could give paralysed patience independence back
  • The first in-human trial is planned for 2017 at The Royal Melbourne Hospital
More than 15 million people suffer strokes worldwide each year, with a third of victims left permanently disabled.
However, there is fresh hope for those left paralysed after researchers developed what they have called a 'bionic spinal cord' 
The bionic cord consists of a paperclip-sized implant that lets wearers control an exoskeleton with just the power of thought. 
Scientists have tested the world's first minimally-invasive 'brain-machine interface' (pictured) that records brain activity and converts it into electrical commands to move an exoskeleton. The implant consists of a stent-based electrode, or 'stentrode' that's implanted within a blood vessel in the brain
Scientists have tested the world's first minimally-invasive 'brain-machine interface' (pictured) that records brain activity and converts it into electrical commands to move an exoskeleton. The implant consists of a stent-based electrode, or 'stentrode' that's implanted within a blood vessel in the brain
The implant consists of a stent-based electrode, or 'stentrode' that's implanted within a blood vessel in the brain. 
It then records the type of neural activity that's been shown to move limbs through an exoskeleton or to control bionic limbs.

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