Deans' stroke musings: Effects of mirror therapy on the motor and functional recovery of post-stroke paretic upper limbs: a systematic review

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.

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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, June 21, 2018

Effects of mirror therapy on the motor and functional recovery of post-stroke paretic upper limbs: a systematic review

This should have been totally unnecessary since I have 44 posts on mirror therapy back to Oct. 2012. That publicly available database of stroke protocols would stop these wastes of time.

https://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=I244125&phrase=no&rec=244125&article_source=CIRRIE&international=1&international_language=&international_location=
Efeitos da terapia espelho na recuperação motora e funcional do membro superior com paresia pós-AVC: uma revisão sistemática. Fisioterapia e Pesquisa , Volume 23(4) , Pgs. 431-438.

NARIC Accession Number: I244125. What's this?
Author(s): Valton da Silva Costa; Júlio César Cunha da Silveira; Tatiana Catarina Albuquerque Clementino; Lorenna Raquel Dantas de Macedo Borges; Luciana Protásio de Melo3.
Publication Year: 2016.
Abstract: This review of the literature was undertaken to determine the main effects of mirror therapy (MT) in the motor recovery of paretic upper limbs (UL) following stroke. An electronic search on the Lilacs, Scielo, PubMed, PEDro, and ScienceDirect databases was performed, in accordance with the following inclusion criteria: clinical trials, in which individuals should have had a stroke of any etiology and in any stage of recovery, with UL impairment, published in full in journals indexed in those databases, between 2010 and 2015, in English or Portuguese, using MT for the rehabilitation of these patients’ UL, with motor function and functional independence as main outcomes. The remaining articles were evaluated with the PEDro scale to assign a score to their methodological quality. Thirteen clinical studies evaluated the effects of MT in the motor function and functional independence of the upper limbs after a stroke. The Fugl-Meyer scale and the Functional Independence Measure were frequently used in the studies, which showed that MT is efficient in upper limb motor recovery and functional independence, especially concerning transfer and self-care. Regarding the methodological evaluation, the articles were considered as having moderate or high quality. In conclusion, MT promotes significant improvement of the motor function and functional independence of paretic upper limbs following stroke, regardless of the time elapsed after the encephalic lesion.
Descriptor Terms: Feedback, Motor skills, Physical therapy, Stroke, Upper extremities.
Language: Portuguese
Geographic Location(s): Brazil, South America.

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Citation: Valton da Silva Costa, Júlio César Cunha da Silveira, Tatiana Catarina Albuquerque Clementino, Lorenna Raquel Dantas de Macedo Borges, Luciana Protásio de Melo3. (2016). Effects of mirror therapy on the motor and functional recovery of post-stroke paretic upper limbs: a systematic review. Efeitos da terapia espelho na recuperação motora e funcional do membro superior com paresia pós-AVC: uma revisão sistemática. Fisioterapia e Pesquisa , 23(4), Pgs. 431-438. Retrieved 6/21/2018, from REHABDATA database.