Deans' stroke musings: Stroke & Brain Injury Clinical Trial in Australia

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, October 25, 2016

Stroke & Brain Injury Clinical Trial in Australia - Robot-Assisted Physiotherapy with REX

Have at it and ask what comparison there is to other robot assisted walking devices. If this is compared to standard walking therapy this is totally fucking worthless research.
http://www.lse.co.uk/regulatory-news-article.asp?ArticleCode=ylykrol9&ArticleHeadline=Stroke__Brain_Injury_Clinical_Trial_in_Australia

RNS Number : 2344N

Rex Bionics PLC

24 October 2016

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Rex Bionics Plc

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REX Stroke and Brain Injury Clinical Trial in Australia

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24 October 2016:�Rex Bionics Plc (AIM: RXB), the pioneer of the REX Robot technology that enhances the mobility of wheelchair users, is pleased to announce the start of a new clinical trial treating patients who have had a stroke or brain injury, with Robot-Assisted Physiotherapy with REX.�

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The trial is being conducted by the Australian Institute of Neuro-rehabilitation, Nelson Bay, New South Wales (NSW), Australia and the University of Newcastle, NSW; and is supported by The Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation and Rex Bionics plc.� The trial has received ethics clearance through the Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 16/08/17/4.06) and will be carried out according to the standards of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.

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The trial will recruit volunteers from the Hunter Region of NSW, who have had a stroke or head injury more than three months previously and have difficulty standing and walking.� Volunteers will be treated twice a week for twelve weeks and the REX treatment will be supplemented by a home programme of exercises.�� There is provision for MRI examination to correlate the functional and neurological response to treatment.�

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More than one-third of people who survive a stroke or head injury need help in walking and some will never regain the ability to stand without assistance. This affects the patient's ability to participate in rehabilitation, their long term health, and the ability to do social, work and leisure activities.

There are more than 420,000 people living with the effects of stroke in Australia and 30% of these people are of working age.� 65% of those living with stroke also suffer a disability that impedes their ability to carry out daily living activities unassisted.� In 2012, the total financial costs of stroke in Australia were estimated to be A$5 billion.

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Trish Leonard, the Founder of AIN, commented:�"In REX's self-supporting exoskeleton we see the potential to provide greater opportunities for weight bearing exercises to people with stroke and other acquired brain injuries. We are excited to be involved in ground breaking research to evaluate REX's robotic exercise therapy as a neuro-rehabilitation tool"