Deans' stroke musings: Digital therapy toy for stroke patients lights up for a game of whack-a-mole

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, August 29, 2017

Digital therapy toy for stroke patients lights up for a game of whack-a-mole

Way way beyond anything I could do while in the hospital and after spasticity set in it became totally impossible.
Digital therapy toy for stroke patients lights up for a game of whack-a-mole

By Elaine Ramirez

7 hours ago

For stroke survivors, relearning to use one's arms and fingers can be a long process with tedious exercises, while they get back on the road to normal life.
Research suggests that the process can be more effective if you include a fun element to it, and new digital versions of traditional rehabilitation toys are attempting to breathe fresh life into the process.
Neofect, a medtech startup from South Korea, has been developing tech therapy devices targeted to motivate the patient.

One of its new devices is a pegboard that lights up, and can accommodate new games with software updates. One of the pegboard’s programs, for example, is a whack-a-mole game that lights up a peg for several seconds, depending on the level, directing the user to place the peg before the light changes position.