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, August 21, 2016

Armeo Senso

One of my readers did more research on ArmeoSenso. Thanks Geoff,
 Remember I'm not medically trained to be able to give you advice. Don't do this on your own.
I loved using their Lokomat. The Armeo Boom could probably be simply replaced with simple cane weight bearing exercises.
My original post on it is here:

Self-directed arm therapy at home after stroke with a sensor-based virtual reality training system


Dean: I did a search of “Armeo Senso” and found these related websites:
1. Game demo video by the guy that created the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae-Rk58jZ7c
2. Company website (most products by this company are really expensive)
https://www.hocoma.com/world/en/products/armeo/
3. University of Zurich website on their organization (Note Hocoma is listed on the organizational chart)
http://www.neuro-rehab.uzh.ch/en/Organization3.html
4. University of Zurich website on their research on reward systems for stroke patients
http://www.neuro-rehab.uzh.ch/en/Research/Group1.html (
These guys are on the right track. Developing a system with 2-4 sensors (wrist, elbow, torso) that interact with a well-crafted computer game, just cannot be that expensive. Especially, if initial development cost is spread out to the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people with upper limb hemiplegia from brain injury that could benefit from its use. A fun & even addicting game like this that helps the patients move with intention as many times as possible should be available to all stroke survivors that can move at all. Of course, this is still “experimental” and our providers & insurance companies (and Medicare) do not want to go there without a gazillion dollar double blind study done over several years proving it works.

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