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.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Clinical feasibility of Xbox KinectTM training for stroke rehabilitation: A single-blind randomized controlled pilot study.

Kinect research on this has been out there for years. Why haven't our professionals put this into a publicly available stroke protocol and stop researching the same stuff over and over again?
I have 18 posts on this back to June 2012. FDA approved the device for stroke in May 2014.
Incompetence? Stupidity? Doesn't care? I blame the senior researchers and mentors for not creating protocols and knowing previous research.

Clinical feasibility of Xbox KinectTM training for stroke rehabilitation: A single-blind randomized controlled pilot study

Tuba Alışkan Türkbey, Sehim Kutlay, Haydar Gök
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-2183

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and safety of Xbox KinectTM training of the upper extremity in subacute stroke rehabilitation.
Design: A single-blind, randomized controlled, pilot study.
Patients: Twenty consecutive patients with stroke.
Methods: Participants were allocated randomly to 2 groups: the control group received conventional therapy and the experimental group received additional Xbox KinectTM training for 20 sessions. Feasibility and safety were evaluated by treatment attendance rate, patient feedback, proportion of adverse events, and Borg Scale (Borg CR10).
Results: Twenty of 131 screened individuals were recruited. Data for 19 patients (73.7% male; mean age 62 years (range 38–79)) were analysed. Treatment attendance ratio for total training time and training time/session was 87% and 90%, respectively. All participants reported that training with the Xbox KinectTM was enjoyable and beneficial. No serious adverse events occurred. Fatigue was the most common adverse event. The mean Borg CR10 score was 7.80, reflecting a very high level of fatigue. The
experimental group showed significantly greater
improvement than the control group in the Box and Blocks Test, Wolf Motor Function Test and Brunnstrom motor recovery stages.
Conclusion: Xbox KinectTM training appears feasible and safe in upper extremity rehabilitation after stroke. It could enhance motor and functional recovery of the affected upper extremity as an adjunctive method.