Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 27,960 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER, BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain!trillions and trillions of neuronsthatDIEeach day because there areNOeffective 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, August 7, 2018
Eye Movements Interfere With Limb Motor Control in Stroke Survivors
And just what the hell are we supposed to do with this information to get 100% recovered?
Background.
Humans use voluntary eye movements to actively gather visual
information during many activities of daily living, such as driving,
walking, and preparing meals. Most stroke survivors have difficulties
performing these functional motor tasks, and we recently demonstrated
that stroke survivors who require many saccades (rapid eye movements) to
plan reaching movements exhibit poor motor performance. However, the
nature of this relationship remains unclear. Objective. Here we
investigate if saccades interfere with speed and smoothness of reaching
movements in stroke survivors, and if excessive saccades are associated
with difficulties performing functional tasks. Methods. We used a
robotic device and eye tracking to examine reaching and saccades in
stroke survivors and age-matched controls who performed the Trail Making
Test, a visuomotor task that uses organized patterns of saccades to
plan reaching movements. We also used the Stroke Impact Scale to examine
difficulties performing functional tasks. Results. Compared with
controls, stroke survivors made many saccades during ongoing reaching
movements, and most of these saccades closely preceded transient
decreases in reaching speed. We also found that the number of saccades
that stroke survivors made during ongoing reaching movements was
strongly associated with slower reaching speed, decreased reaching
smoothness, and greater difficulty performing functional tasks. Conclusions.
Our findings indicate that poststroke interference between eye and limb
movements may contribute to difficulties performing functional tasks.
This suggests that interventions aimed at treating impaired organization
of eye movements may improve functional recovery after stroke.
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