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.

Monday, November 13, 2017

UCLH robots help stroke patients regain upper limb movement

You will have to compare it to other upper limb robotics. Your hospital will do nothing, they never have before and won't start now.  So followup research will be needed that will never occur unless YOU fund the researchers.
http://www.csp.org.uk/news/2017/11/13/uclh-robots-help-stroke-patients-regain-upper-limb-movement
 
Staff at UCLH’s stroke rehabilitation unit have become the first in the NHS to use robotic devices in conjunction with more traditional therapies to help patients regain arm and hand movement.
Robotic stroke rehab
An occupational therapist supervises a patient as they use the robotic device. Photo ©UCLH 
The robots, which help patients practise exercises to build up strength and dexterity, can be supervised by a physiotherapy assistant and were introduced as part of UCLH’s intensive three-week upper limb neuro rehabilitation programme.
The unit’s consultant neurologist Nick Ward explained that most rehabilitation focused on walking and balance rather than arm and hand movement. This programme, set up four years ago, was a response to that.
The patients, most of whom will have suffered a stroke more than a year ago, attend every day for three weeks, receiving 90 hours’ intensive therapy. Over 200 patients have now been through the programme and over half have shown significant gains in movement.
‘These people have been told there’s no longer any change possible but this programme shows quite clearly that we have written these people off too early,’ said Dr Ward.
The devices – the Armeo Spring rehabilitation robot and four smaller pieces of equipment made by Tyromotion – help patients carry out repetitive exercises while keeping them motivated and interested, said consultant physio (rehab and stroke) Fran Brander.
But she stressed they were always part of an individual programme devised and overseen by a qualified therapist. ‘It enhances what we have been working on and gives the patient more intensity. But we don’t believe technology is the be all and end all – it just adds another tool in the toolbox.’ The unit’s skill mix hadn’t changed as a result of introducing the robots.
Technology is no threat
‘Therapists shouldn’t see them as a threat and, to be honest, they’re so expensive most NHS departments can’t afford them anyway. If I were a boss I’d rather pay for a therapist than a robot because you’re going to have better outcomes.’
The Armeo Spring and Tyromotion robot devices cost £170,000 in total and were funded by the UCLH’s charity arm.

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