Deans' stroke musings: Study finds combining aerobic and resistance training significantly enhances stroke recovery

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, June 19, 2018

Study finds combining aerobic and resistance training significantly enhances stroke recovery

More work for you to do for your recovery while your doctor has zilch to do with your recovery. Your doctor lost the great chance to vastly reduce your disability by not contacting researchers decades ago to solve the 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first week. And yet you continue to pay them. This research is still useless since it doesn't provide a protocol.
http://www.uhnresearch.ca/news/right-prescription-exercise

A new study from the University Health Network’s Toronto Rehab provides proof that combining aerobic and resistance training provides powerful benefits to patients who are recovering from a stroke.

Stroke is a major cause of disability in Canada: it can cause muscle weakness, which can reduce mobility and threaten a survivor’s independence and quality of life.

Recommendations for combined aerobic and resistance training for stroke survivors have been in place for years; however, few research studies exist that demonstrate that they actually improve recovery. Moreover there is no compelling evidence that combined training is more effective than aerobic training alone for post-stroke recovery.

To address this important question, Dr. Susan Marzolini and her team compared combined aerobic and resistance training with aerobic training alone in a group of stroke survivors with mobility deficits.

They discovered that, despite being prescribed 40% less aerobic training, patients who received combined training had enhanced stroke recovery and showed greater improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness, strength and lean muscle mass. In fact, the combined training group gained almost five times more muscle mass than the aerobic training only group.

The findings provide scientific evidence of the benefits of supplementing aerobic sessions with resistance training and support the integration of both types of training in stroke rehabilitation programs.

This work was supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, and the Ontario Stroke Network.

Marzolini S, Brooks D, Oh P, Jagroop D, MacIntosh BJ, Anderson ND, Alter D, Corbett D. Aerobic With Resistance Training or Aerobic Training Alone Poststroke: A Secondary Analysis From a Randomized Clinical Trial (link is external). Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2018 Mar;32(3):209-222. doi: 10.1177/1545968318765692.