Deans' stroke musings: A Kinect-Based System for Balance Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

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, April 5, 2016

A Kinect-Based System for Balance Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

Kinect research on this has been out there for years. Why haven't our professionals put this into a publicly available stroke protocol and stop researching the same stuff over and over again?
I have 14 posts on this back to June 2012. FDA approved the device for stroke in May 2014.

My system would be even simpler, progressively give them more and more alcohol sitting at a high bar stool and have them walk to the bathroom. Quite a challenge and it would speed up your recovery a lot. Secondary positives would be consumption of resveratrol if you use red wine. Win, win.
http://search.ieice.org/bin/summary.php?id=e99-d_4_1032

Chung-Liang LAI

Chien-Ming TSENG

D. ERDENETSOGT

Tzu-Kuan LIAO

Ya-Ling HUANG

Yung-Fu CHEN

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E99-D No.4 pp.1032-1037
Publication Date: 2016/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cyberworlds)
Category:
Keyword:
stroke

, virtual reality

, e-rehabilitation

, balance shift

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Summary:
A low-cost prototypic Kinect-based rehabilitation system was developed for recovering balance capability of stroke patients. A total of 16 stroke patients were recruited to participate in the study. After excluding 3 patients who failed to finish all of the rehabilitation sessions, only the data of 13 patients were analyzed. The results exhibited a significant effect in recovering balance function of the patients after 3 weeks of balance training. Additionally, the questionnaire survey revealed that the designed system was perceived as effective and easy in operation.