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.

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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.

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

SPSC17: Physios should embrace technology in stroke rehab, says biomechanics lecturer

You wouldn't need to try to fix the appalling rate of 10% full recovery via physiotherapy if your doctors were stopping the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes in the first week resulting in fewer dead and damaged neurons.
http://www.csp.org.uk/news/2017/10/30/spsc17-physios-should-embrace-technology-stroke-rehab-says-biomechanics-lecturer

Many physiotherapy students are anxious about the use of biomechanics in rehab, according to a lecturer in biomedical engineering.
Dr Andy Kerr
Biomechanical engineering lecturer Andy Kerr spoke about technology and stroke rehab
Andy Kerr, who is also a researcher at the University of Strathclyde, spoke about the issue during a keynote speech at the Scottish Physiotherapy Student Conference 2017 (SPSC17) in Edinburgh on 28 October.
Dr Kerr has worked on several projects associated with stroke rehabilitation and the use of technology to support its delivery and evaluation.
And his primary research interest is the study of human movement, shaped from many years as both a clinical and teaching physiotherapist.
He asked the conference whether the solution to delivering rehabilitation is technology and provided details of a study that counted the number of sit to stand movements performed during the rehab of older people who have had a stroke.
Some participants were fitted with sensors, he explained, and an avatar on a screen moved in time and told them when to push up.
Dr Kerr said: ‘There are too many barriers to the use of technology: cost, dogma, complexity, access, NHS firewalls that stop apps and staff fear of being replaced by therapy robots.
‘There are not enough physios and the technology cannot replace your skills and knowledge. My aim is greater integration of technology and more use. Next year there will be a master’s level course in technology and health.’
Virtual reality treadmill training
Dr Kerr’s research into gait and recovery of walking function suggests that, although 80 per cent of stroke survivors do recover some walking ability, they are too slow and unskilled for the challenges of walking outdoors.
He has also been involved in a study that combined virtual reality with treadmill training for stroke survivors. People taking part followed virtual 'road and forest paths' and the treadmill slowed when users stepped over ‘objects’.
This feasibility study found treadmill walking (with and without virtual reality) to be similar enough to overground walking to justify it as a training modality for chronic stroke patients, who had already attained some independence in walking.
Installation of the equipment currently costs £600,000 to £1 million, but work is ongoing to use cheaper TV screens.

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