Deans' stroke musings: Comparison of Dysphagia Rehabilitation Therapy with Natural Recovery on Swallowing Ability among Acute Stroke Patients

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.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Comparison of Dysphagia Rehabilitation Therapy with Natural Recovery on Swallowing Ability among Acute Stroke Patients

Have your doctor decipher this. Better hope a translation to English exists.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=I242674&phrase=no&rec=242674&article_source=CIRRIE&international=1&international_language=&international_location=
Journal of Rehabilitation Welfare Engineering & Assistive Technology , Volume 8(2) , Pgs. 109-118.

NARIC Accession Number: I242674. What's this?
Author(s): S. Y. Heo; K. K. Kim.
Publication Year: 2014.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of rehabilitation therapy with natural recovery in patients who have dysphagia due to stroke. Participants were 98 patients with stroke-caused dysphagia who were divided into an experimental and a control group. Swallowing functions were examined based on a video fluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS) for 8 weeks. Each group was evaluated with the Dysphagia Outcome and Severity Scale (DOSS), Dysphagia Severity Score (DSS), and Functional Outcome Swallowing Scale (FOSS) to assess swallowing ability in the first week, and re-evaluated in the 8th week during the session for investigating the recovery status. The author compared the above initial data and follow-up data using a Mann-Whitney U test, Kluskal-Wallis test, and Wilcoxon’s Signed Rank test, performed by IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0 for windows. There was statistically significant recovery in the experimenta1 group except measure of DOSS (p>O.05). The control group showed improvement in all the sca1es (p Descriptor Terms: Dysphagia, Rehabilitation, Stroke, Therapy.
Language: Korean