Deans' stroke musings: Sensory Interactions for Head and Trunk Control in Space in Young and Older Adults During Normal and Narrow-Base Walking

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, March 1, 2016

Sensory Interactions for Head and Trunk Control in Space in Young and Older Adults During Normal and Narrow-Base Walking

I don't give a shit about the investigation. What was learned from here to make survivors lives better? That should be the function of any stroke research if we had any stroke leaders or strategy at all. But we have absolutely NOTHING. You're screwed, your children are screwed, your grandchildren are screwed.
http://journals.humankinetics.com/mc-current-issue/mc-volume-20-issue-1-january/sensory-interactions-for-head-and-trunk-control-in-space-in-young-and-older-adults-during-normal-and-narrow-base-walking
Authors: Fang Zhang, Nandini Deshpande

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2016, 20, 21 – 32

http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/mc.2014-0046
15 young (20-30 years) and 15 older (>65 years) healthy participants were recruited to investigate age-related differences in the head and trunk control under suboptimal vestibular (GVS) and vision conditions during the normal and narrow-based walking (NB). Head roll velocity decreased in blurred vision condition and marginally increased with GVS in older but not in young. Head pitch increased, while head roll velocity decreased in NB. Trunk pitch, trunk pitch velocity and gait speed increased with GVS, while trunk pitch velocity and gait speed decreased in NB. Marginally increased head roll velocity in older people possibly suggests decreased integrative ability of the CNS in elderly. The changes in head control during NB may be an attempt to simplify the interpretation of the vestibular signal and increase otoliths sensitivity. The complexity of controlling trunk in M-L direction was suggested by different strategies used for trunk control in different conditions.

Nothing on Trunk Impairment Scale.
Why wasn't it used?