Deans' stroke musings: BiGRA: A preliminary bilateral hand grip coordination rehabilitation using home-based evaluation system for stroke patients

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, April 15, 2018

BiGRA: A preliminary bilateral hand grip coordination rehabilitation using home-based evaluation system for stroke patients

Useless, measures and assesses but doesn't tell us results or efficacy.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8329647/

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Abstract:

Motor impairment is common following stroke. Diminished strength and coordination contribute to reduced ability to perform activities of daily living. The existing healthcare models focus on delivering rehabilitation during the first few months following stroke. Yet, to regain motor control to the greatest degree, rehabilitation should continue across the lifespan. Currently, individuals with stroke are responsible for self-managing their rehabilitation once therapist guided rehabilitation has concluded. Individuals with stroke are frequently given a written home exercise program to help guide their home rehabilitation, but poor compliance demonstrates a better approach is necessary. In this study, we propose BiGRA, a novel system to more effectively facilitate in-home bilateral rehabilitation. This system holds merits in: (1) An end-to-end task-oriented system for bilateral grip control which emphasizes the modulation of grip coordination between hands; and (2) Innovative metrics framework to quantitatively analyze the motor control performance. The evaluation shows that BiGRA can objectively measure the patients' task performance and is a promising assessment tool for stroke rehabilitation.

Published in: Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Date of Conference: 4-7 March 2018

Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 05 April 2018

ISBN Information:

Electronic ISSN: 2376-8894

DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2018.8329647

Publisher: IEEE

Conference Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA, USA