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.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Chapter 13 – Twenty + years of robotics for upper-extremity rehabilitation following a stroke

Ask your doctor which of these robotics will get you recovered and which ones they have available for your use.  You shouldn't have to do this because your doctor should come to you with the therapy you need and the efficacy of that therapy. But until stroke doctors and hospitals stop being incompetent, YOU will have to do that research and bring it to their attention.

Chapter 13 – Twenty + years of robotics for upper-extremity rehabilitation following a stroke


Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of 28 + years of efforts at MIT's Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation developing robotic tools to assist in the neurorecovery process. I will discuss a few basic principles that are core for successful rehabilitation robotic technology, present a snapshot of a few of MIT's rehabilitation robots, discuss the results of meta-analyses for upper-extremity robotics, and finish by discussing two of our research group's exciting examples for acute and chronic stroke. The material covered in this chapter should suffice to highlight to the reader that poststroke robotic therapy for the upper extremity that involves an interactive high-intensity, intention-driven therapy based on motor learning principles and assist-as-needed principle leads to better outcomes than usual care in both acute/subacute and chronic stroke and hence, it has been recognized in many health-care associations' clinical guidelines.

Keywords

  • Robot neurorehabilitation;
  • Motor learning;
  • Motor recovery;
  • Upper-limb stroke

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgment
Dr. H. I. Krebs is a coinventor in several MIT-held patents for the robotic technology. He was the founder of Interactive Motion Technologies and 4Motion Robotics.
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