Deans' stroke musings: For Your Patients-Stroke Rehabilitation: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Improves Post-Stroke Walking Speed

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, July 5, 2018

For Your Patients-Stroke Rehabilitation: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Improves Post-Stroke Walking Speed

These damned systematic reviews should never be necessary. A great stroke association president would have researchers updating clinical research parameters for rehab for every piece of stroke research. Do you not even understand that concept?

For Stroke Victims, Brain Magnetic Stimulation Leads to Improved Walking Speed May 2018

For Your Patients-Stroke Rehabilitation: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Improves Post-Stroke Walking Speed

Robinson, Richard

Neurology Today: July 5, 2018 - Volume 18 - Issue 13 - p 21–23

doi: 10.1097/01.NT.0000542318.06918.5d

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A systematic review of studies using rTMS for lower limb stroke rehabilitation found it can improve walking speed.

Since it was first developed in the late 1990s, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been thought to be a promising treatment for stroke rehabilitation. That's been especially true for upper limb rehabilitation, since motor areas controlling the upper limbs lie on the brain's surface, where they are easy to affect by placing a stimulation coil against the scalp. In contrast, the lower limb motor control areas are within the intracerebral fissure and are thus harder to stimulate; as a consequence, there are fewer studies, and less evidence, supporting the efficacy of rTMS for improvements in post-stroke walking and balance.

Now, a systematic review of studies using rTMS for lower limb stroke rehabilitation, published online May 3 in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, indicates it can improve walking speed. The review may increase interest in further studies of rTMS for this application, according to experts, but whether the technique will move beyond the experimental stage any time soon is still in question.