Deans' stroke musings: Brain-controlled functional electrical stimulation therapy for gait rehabilitation after stroke: A safety study

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.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Brain-controlled functional electrical stimulation therapy for gait rehabilitation after stroke: A safety study

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http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J72749&phrase=no&rec=129623
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation , Volume 12(57)

NARIC Accession Number: J72749. What's this?
ISSN: 1743-0003.
Author(s): McCrimmon, Colin M.; King, Christine E.; Wang, Po T.; Cramer, Steven C.; Nenadic, Zoran; Do, An H..
Publication Year: 2015.
Number of Pages: 12.
Abstract: Study explored the safety and feasibility of a foot-drop-targeted brain-computer interface (BCI)-controlled functional electrical stimulation (FES) physical therapy in chronic stroke survivors. Nine subjects operated an electroencephalogram-based BCI-FES system for foot dorsiflexion in 12 one-hour sessions over four weeks. Gait speed, dorsiflexion active range of motion (AROM), six-minute walk distance (6MWD), and Fugl-Meyer leg motor (FM-LM) scores were assessed before, during, and after therapy. The primary safety outcome measure was the proportion of subjects that deteriorated in gait speed by ≥0.16 meters per second at one week or four weeks post-therapy. The secondary outcome measures were the proportion of subjects that experienced a clinically relevant decrease in dorsiflexion AROM (≥2.5 degrees), 6MWD (≥20 percent), and FM-LM score (≥10 percent) at either post-therapy assessment. None of the subjects experienced a clinically significant deterioration in gait speed, dorsiflexion AROM, 6MWT distance, or FM-LM score at either post-therapy assessment. Five subjects demonstrated a detectable increase in gait speed, three subjects demonstrated a detectable increase in dorsiflexion AROM, five subjects demonstrated a detectable increase in 6MWD, and three subjects demonstrated a detectable increase in FM-LM. Linear mixed models of gait speed, dorsiflexion AROM, 6MWD, and FM-LM scores suggest that BCI-FES therapy is associated with an increase in lower motor performance at a statistically, yet not clinically, significant level. BCI-FES therapy appears to be safe. If it is shown to improve post-stroke gait function in future studies, it could provide a new gait rehabilitation option for severely impaired patients.
Descriptor Terms: BRAIN, COMPUTERS, ELECTRICAL STIMULATION, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, FEASIBILITY STUDIES, PHYSICAL THERAPY, SAFETY, STROKE.

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Citation: McCrimmon, Colin M., King, Christine E., Wang, Po T., Cramer, Steven C., Nenadic, Zoran, Do, An H.. (2015). Brain-controlled functional electrical stimulation therapy for gait rehabilitation after stroke: A safety study. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 12(57) Retrieved 3/10/2016, from REHABDATA database.