Deans' stroke musings: Chronic Hemiparetic Subjects with Higher Physical Activity Levels Report Better Quality of Life

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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.

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Chronic Hemiparetic Subjects with Higher Physical Activity Levels Report Better Quality of Life

DUH! Are you really sure about that?
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=I243550&phrase=no&rec=243550&article_source=CIRRIE&international=1&international_language=&international_location=
Hemiparéticos crônicos com maiores níveis de atividade física reportam melhor qualidade de vida. Revista Neurociências , Volume 22(2) , Pgs. 221-226.

NARIC Accession Number: I243550. What's this?
Author(s): Janaine Cunha Polese; Marina de Barros Pinheiro; Gustavo de Carvalho Machado.
Publication Year: 2014.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic stroke with various levels of physical activity. Physical activity was assessed by the Human Activity Profile (HAP), and patients were stratified into three groups: active, moderately active, and inactive. HRQoL was assessed by the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP). Analysis of Variance with post-hoc least significant difference was used to compare the HRQoL life among the three groups. A total of 98 chronic stroke patients were included (54% men), 56±12 years old and 64±53 months post-stroke, of whom 26 were classified as inactive, 55 as moderately active and 17 as active. A significant difference was observed in HRQoL between the three groups of physical activity (F =17.8 , p<0.01), with active groups showing better perceived HRQoL. A significant difference between the three categories of physical activity levels for all domains of HRQOL was observed: energy level (F=4.21, p=0.02 ), pain (F=9.13, p<0,01 ), emotional reactions (F=5.51, p<0.01), sleep quality (F=3.21, p=0.04), social interaction (F=4.42 , p=0.01) and physical skills (F=36.97, p<0.01). Overall, active chronic stroke showed better perceived HRQoL, and thus the level of physical activity should be considered in approaches that aim to improve HRQOL in this population.
Descriptor Terms: Physical fitness, Quality of life, Stroke.
Language: Portuguese
Geographic Location(s): Brazil, South America.

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Citation: Janaine Cunha Polese, Marina de Barros Pinheiro, Gustavo de Carvalho Machado. (2014). Chronic Hemiparetic Subjects with Higher Physical Activity Levels Report Better Quality of Life. Hemiparéticos crônicos com maiores níveis de atividade física reportam melhor qualidade de vida. Revista Neurociências , 22(2), Pgs. 221-226. Retrieved 9/10/2017, from REHABDATA database.