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.

Friday, November 10, 2017

The effect of arm support combined with rehabilitation games on upper-extremity function in subacute stroke: a randomized controlled trial

  How is your therapist accomplishing this without this device? I used a cane

These other possibilities already exist.

ReoGo by Motorika - Robotic Rehabilitation- Treatment for Stroke Oct. 2012

Partial weight support of the arm affects corticomotor selectivity of biceps brachii - SaeboMAS Feb. 2016

 

The latest here:

The effect of arm support combined with rehabilitation games on upper-extremity function in subacute stroke: a randomized controlled trial

Prange GB1, Kottink AI2, Buurke JH2, Eckhardt MM3, van Keulen-Rouweler BJ4, Ribbers GM3, Rietman JS2.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Use of rehabilitation technology, such as (electro)mechanical devices or robotics, could partly relieve the increasing strain on stroke rehabilitation caused by an increasing prevalence of stroke. Arm support (AS) training showed improvement of unsupported arm function in chronic stroke.

OBJECTIVE:

To examine the effect of weight-supported arm training combined with computerized exercises on arm function and capacity, compared with dose-matched conventional reach training in subacute stroke patients.

METHODS:

In a single-blind, multicenter, randomized controlled trial, 70 subacute stroke patients received 6 weeks of training with either an AS device combined with computerized exercises or dose-matched conventional training (CON). Arm function was evaluated pretraining and posttraining by Fugl-Meyer assessment (FM), maximal reach distance, Stroke Upper Limb Capacity Scale (SULCS), and arm pain via Visual Analogue Scale, in addition to perceived motivation by Intrinsic Motivation Inventory posttraining.

RESULTS:

FM and SULCS scores and reach distance improved significantly within both groups. These improvements and experienced pain did not differ between groups. The AS group reported higher interest/enjoyment during training than the CON group.

CONCLUSIONS:

AS training with computerized exercises is as effective as conventional therapy dedicated to the arm to improve arm function and activity in subacute stroke rehabilitation, when applied at the same dose.
© The Author(s) 2014.

KEYWORDS:

arm support; computerized exercises; exercise therapy; recovery of function; serious games; stroke; upper extremity
PMID:
24878589
DOI:
10.1177/1545968314535985
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