Deans' stroke musings: Virtual reality rehabilitation for stroke patients: Recent review and research issues

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.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Virtual reality rehabilitation for stroke patients: Recent review and research issues

Your doctor was correct in not reading or bringing in all those older research trials on VR. No point in being a leader when you can just wait for a review like this and bring in the best. Except that your doctor probably won't read this review either. You'll have to take on the challenge of training your doctor of the finer and newer points of stroke rehab. Good luck with that, hope your doctor is trainable. And all those earlier stroke patients that could have been helped by bringing in VR earlier. Well, so what?
http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5012226

AIP Conference Proceedings 1905, 050007 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5012226

Eza Surya Mohd Arip¹^,^a), Waidah Ismail¹^,^b), Md Jan Nordin²^,^c), and Abduljalil Radman¹^,^d)

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Abstract

Stroke is one of the main causes of disability in the world. In order for stroke survivors to reduce their disability, they need to go through a rehabilitation process to regain back their independence and improve their quality of life. To guide patients in their rehabilitation process and improve their receptiveness in performing repetitive exercises, a new rehabilitation training program using Virtual Reality (VR) technology has been introduced. This has attracted many researchers to explore more on VR technology as a new tool for stroke patient’s rehabilitation. This paper presents a review on existing VR systems that have been developed for stroke rehabilitation. First, recent VR systems utilized for rehabilitation after stroke are delineated and categorized. Each of these categories concludes with a discussion on limitations and any issues that arise from it. Finally, a concise summary with significant findings and future possibilities in VR rehabilitation research is presented in table format.