Deans' stroke musings: Computer-Based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation of Prospective Memory

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.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Computer-Based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation of Prospective Memory

Once again you will have to have your doctor contact the researchers and get the protocols used. Do you really expect every stroke doctor in the world will do that? This is where a great stroke association would step in and deliver protocols to all doctors, therapists and hospitals.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211368116300377

doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2016.03.006

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Highlights

•: Computer-based rehabilitation of prospective memory (PM).
•: Stroke survivors learned to memorize cue-action pairs using visual imagery.
•: Participants practiced in a virtual reality environment.
•: Study with 15 participants found a significant increase in PM.
•: Significant improvement in PM remained 4 weeks post treatment.

Abstract

We present a computer-based environment for rehabilitation of prospective memory in stroke survivors. Prospective memory (PM), or remembering to perform actions in the future, is of crucial importance for everyday life. This kind of memory is often impaired in stroke survivors and can interfere with independent living. Fifteen participants were recruited to participate in our study consisting of 10 sessions. The participants were first trained on how to develop visual images in order to remember time- and event-based prospective memory tasks. After the visual imagery training, participants practiced their PM skills using videos, and later in a virtual reality (VR) environment. The results show a significant improvement on PM skills as measured by the CAMPROMPT test, which remained stable 4 weeks after the treatment. VR-based training was well accepted by the participants.