Deans' stroke musings: Effects of action observation therapy on hand dexterity and EEG-based cortical activation patterns in patients with post-stroke hemiparesis

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.

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Effects of action observation therapy on hand dexterity and EEG-based cortical activation patterns in patients with post-stroke hemiparesis

How many fucking times does action observation need to be proven in research before someone writes up a fucking stroke protocol on it? NEVER I BET.
With 80 action observation posts back to May, 2011 it just shows the fucking incompetence in stroke.
Ask your doctor what stroke research partner they are working with to determine the best interventions for stroke rehab. Your doctor can't be that lazy sit on your asses person, waiting for SOMEONE ELSE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. The solutions are out there we just need them translated into protocols.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J77365&phrase=no&rec=135303&article_source=Rehab&international=0&international_language=&international_location=
Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 23(5) , Pgs. 318-325.

NARIC Accession Number: J77365. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Kuk, Eun-Ju; Kim, Jong-Man; Oh, Duck-Won; Hwang, Han-Jeong.
Publication Year: 2016.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract: Study examined the effects of action observation training (AOT) on hand dexterity and electroencephalography (EEG)-based cortical activation in patients with post-stroke hemiparesis. AOT is a training process that involves observing specific actions performed by others, and subsequently imitating these actions prior to physical training, with the benefits of repetitively practicing the observed actions. Twenty patients with post-stroke hemiparesis were randomly divided into either the experimental group (EG) or control group (CG), with 10 patients in each group. Prior to the execution of motor tasks (carrying wooden blocks from one box to another), subjects in the EG and CG observed a video clip displaying the execution of the same motor task and pictures showing landscapes, respectively. Outcome measures included the Box and Block Test (BBT) to evaluate hand dexterity and EEG-based brain mapping to detect changes in cortical activation. The BBT scores (EG: 20.50 at pre-test and 24.40 at post-test; CG: 20.20 at pre-test and 20.60 at post-test) revealed significant main effects for the time and group and significant time-by-group interactions. For the subjects in the EG, topographical representations obtained with the EEG-based brain mapping system were different in each session of the AOT and remarkable changes occurred from the second session of AOT. Furthermore, the middle frontal gyrus was less active at post-test than at pre-test. These findings suggest that AOT may be beneficial in altering cortical activation patterns and hand dexterity.
Descriptor Terms: BRAIN, DEXTERITY, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, HEMIPLEGIA, MOTOR SKILLS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, STROKE.

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Citation: Kuk, Eun-Ju, Kim, Jong-Man, Oh, Duck-Won, Hwang, Han-Jeong. (2016). Effects of action observation therapy on hand dexterity and EEG-based cortical activation patterns in patients with post-stroke hemiparesis. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 23(5), Pgs. 318-325. Retrieved 1/14/2018, from REHABDATA database.