Deans' stroke musings: The Potential Role of Thermography in Determining the Efficacy of Stroke Rehabilitation

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, October 14, 2017

The Potential Role of Thermography in Determining the Efficacy of Stroke Rehabilitation

Fucking useless. No references to the stroke protocols used.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1052305717304664

Béla Hegedűs, MD^,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2017.08.045

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Introduction

Maintaining good physiological circulation in the extremities requires an optimally functioning muscle pump. Stroke symptoms indicate a change in venous circulation. In this study, changes were measured in joint function and microcirculation, and the correlation between them was examined.

Setting

Physiotherapy Center, Ss. Cosmas and Damian Rehabilitation Institute, Visegrád, Hungary.

Methodology

Sixteen randomly selected poststroke patients with hemiparesis affecting mainly the upper extremities began undergoing rehabilitation 13 ± 4 days following stroke. Thermograms were taken with a Fluke Ti 20 (Fluke Corporation, WA) pretreatment and post-treatment, and a physiotherapy documentation form was completed. Treatment comprised 15 physiotherapy, massage, and galvanic therapy sessions per patient,(Where do I find this protocol?) with the side exhibiting no neurological symptoms as a control.

Results

Joint function showed significant improvement on the affected side (P < .05). Thermographic examinations revealed microcirculatory dysfunction in the affected extremities in 100% of the cases. Following treatment, temperature increased significantly (P ≥ .5°C) on the affected side. A strong correlation (r) was observed between joint function and temperature change (P < .05).

Conclusion

Thermography is shown to be a reliable method for monitoring the effects of stroke rehabilitation treatment. Thermographic testing may enable us to predict the course of the trauma and the efficacy of treatment even at the acute stage.