Deans' stroke musings: Functional Electrical Stimulation and Its Use During Cycling for the Rehabilitation of Individuals with Stroke

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, February 8, 2018

Functional Electrical Stimulation and Its Use During Cycling for the Rehabilitation of Individuals with Stroke

You'll have to have your doctor get and implement the details into your recovery protocols.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-72736-3_21

Elisabetta PeriEmail author
Eleonora Guanziroli
Simona Ferrante
Alessandra Pedrocchi
Franco Molteni

Elisabetta Peri
- 1
Email author
Eleonora Guanziroli
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Simona Ferrante
- 1
Alessandra Pedrocchi
- 1
Franco Molteni
- 2

1.NEARLab, Department of Electronic, Information and BioengineeringPolitecnico di MilanoMilanItaly
2.Valduce HospitalVilla Beretta Rehabilitation CenterComoItaly

Chapter

First Online: 31 January 2018

Part of the Biosystems & Biorobotics book series (BIOSYSROB, volume 19)

Abstract

Stroke disease involves an increasing number of subjects due to the aging population. In clinical practice‚ the presence of widely accessible rehabilitative interventions to facilitate the patients’ motor recovery‚ especially in the early stages after injury when wider improvement can be gained‚ is crucial to reduce social and economical costs. The functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been investigated as a tool to promote locomotion ability in stroke patients. Particular attention was given to FES delivered during cycling‚ which is recognized as a safe and widely accessible way to provide a FES-based rehabilitative intervention in the most impaired subjects. In this chapter the neurophysiological basis of FES and its potential correlates to facilitate the long-term reorganization at both cortical and spinal level have been discussed. A discussion on clinical evidence and possible future direction is also proposed.