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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, August 2, 2016

Sub-sensory vibratory noise augments the physiologic complexity of postural control in older adults

What is your doctor doing to determine if this would make you walk better and have better balance? How long before s/he updates your walking protocol?
http://jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12984-016-0152-7
  • Junhong ZhouEmail author,
  • Lewis Lipsitz,
  • Daniel Habtemariam and
  • Brad Manor
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation201613:44
DOI: 10.1186/s12984-016-0152-7
Received: 23 December 2015
Accepted: 22 April 2016
Published: 3 May 2016

Abstract

Background

Postural control requires numerous inputs interacting across multiple temporospatial scales. This organization, evidenced by the “complexity” contained within standing postural sway fluctuations, enables diverse system functionality. Age-related reduction of foot-sole somatosensation reduces standing postural sway complexity and diminishes the functionality of the postural control system. Sub-sensory vibrations applied to the foot soles reduce the speed and magnitude of sway and improve mobility in older adults. We thus hypothesized that these vibration-induced improvements to the functionality of the postural control system are associated with an increase in the standing postural sway complexity.

Method

Twelve healthy older adults aged 74 ± 8 years completed three visits to test the effects of foot sole vibrations at 0 % (i.e., no vibration), 70 and 85 % of the sensory threshold. Postural sway was assessed during eyes-open and eyes-closed standing. The complexity of sway time-series was quantified using multiscale entropy. The timed up-and-go (TUG) was completed to assess mobility.

Results

When standing without vibration, participants with lower foot sole vibratory thresholds (better sensation) had greater mediolateral (ML) sway complexity (r 2 = 0.49, p < 0.001), and those with greater ML sway complexity had faster TUG times (better mobility) (r 2 = 0.38, p  < 0.001). Foot sole vibrations at 70 and 85 % of sensory threshold increased ML sway complexity during eyes-open and eyes-closed standing (p  < 0.0001). Importantly, these vibration-induced increases in complexity correlated with improvements in the TUG test of mobility (r 2 = 0.15 ~ 0.42, p < 0.001 ~ 0.03).

Conclusions

Sub-sensory foot sole vibrations augment the postural control system functionality and such beneficial effects are reflected in an increase in the physiologic complexity of standing postural sway dynamics.


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