I had shoulder pain for a couple of weeks, did nothing to address it, it went away.
http://nationalpainreport.com/relief-for-stroke-survivors-with-shoulder-pain-8831250.html
Up to 85% of stroke survivors suffer from chronic shoulder pain and
that pain often stops them from continuing their efforts to rehabilitate
after their stroke.
When a stroke survivor can no longer move his or her arm, the muscles
will atrophy. The shoulder will essentially separate and the pain from
the shoulder will often cause them to drop out of rehabilitation.
Choices like opioids, short term joint injections and immobilization
might help relieve the pain in the short-term but they don’t address the
cause—how to settle down the axillary nerve.
Doctors are having some success with a recently FDA cleared device
that treats chronic pain of a peripheral nerve origin. In fact, it was
the first implantable neuromodulation device cleared for peripheral
nerve pain.
The StimRouter was developed by Bioness, a southern California
company that was founded by the legendary Al Mann, the entrepreneur and
philanthropist who founded companies that focused on cardiac pacemakers,
insulin pumps, spinal cord stimulators and cochlear implants. Mann
passed away earlier this year.
“The goal is to get the stroke patient back into rehab,” said Mark
Geiger, Global Director of Marketing Implantables for Bioness. “By
targeting the pain at its origin, we believe we have an answer for the
chronic shoulder pain that plagues stroke survivors.
The StimRouter is being marketed as a minimally invasive, long-term
treatment option. No batteries are implanted. There’s less lead
migration which is a big challenge for more invasive treatments.
Many pain physicians like what they see so far.
“This represents a paradigm shift in the management of post-stroke
shoulder pain,” said Dr. Michael Sein, a rehabilitation physician at
Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. “I like the ease of implementation
which can be completed in an ambulatory setting as well as the
significant levels of pain reduction that is achievable in patients that
have failed to improve with prior therapy.
According to Dr. Sein, the traditional therapy has included physical therapy, medications and corticosteroid injections.
While the device was approved last year, the Company just launched
the product in early 2016 and is still training pain and rehabilitation
physicians around the country. Currently about 70 physicians are
trained.
“That number is increasing by the month,” said Geiger.
The StimRouter is also approved for treatment of upper or lower
limbs, entrapment syndromes, intercostal neuralgias and other peripheral
injuries or disease.
Dr. Porter McRoberts of Fort Lauderdale, Florida is an interventional pain physician who has also used the device.
“100% of my implanted patients have had dramatic improvements in
pain, said Dr. McRoberts. “One patient has even had complete resolution
of her symptoms. I’ve been extremely happy.”
The Company hopes that for physical therapists and occupational
therapists, the StimRouter may help these professionals successfully
rehab more of the 800,000 Americans who suffer a stroke each year.
Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 29,112 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER, BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
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.
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