Deans' stroke musings: Unobtrusive Sensing for Home - Based Post

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, August 14, 2018

Unobtrusive Sensing for Home - Based Post - Stroke Rehabilitation

We need objective diagnosis like this so we can get protocols prescribed for us that correct such damage diagnosis. Doe no one in stroke understand cause and effect?

Unobtrusive Sensing for Home - Based Post - Stroke Rehabilitation

1 © 2018 , Idongesit Ekerete, Chris Nugent & Jim McLaughlin . Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of British HCI 2018 . Belfast , UK. Unobtrusive Sensing for Home - Based Post - Stroke Rehabilitation Idongesit Ekerete Chris Nugent Jim McLaughlin Ulster University Ulster University Ulster University Sch ool of Computing Sch ool of Computing NIBEC ekerete - i@ulster.ac.uk c d .nugent@ulster.ac.uk jad.mclaughlin@ulster. ac.uk ac.uk This paper proposes the fusion of low - cost unobtrusive heterogeneous sensors (MEMS thermal and radar sensors) to monitor the rehabilitation activities of post - stroke sufferers within home - based settings. Results of the proposed approach are planned to be compared with a standard EMG sensor newly introduced sensing solution. MEMS, unobtrusive, Radar, Thermal, Sensing, Post - 1. INTRODUCTION
a cerebrovascular disease which interrupts the flow of oxygenated blood to certain regions of the brain. This often results in sudden loss of neurological functions making it difficult for the sufferer to carry out certain activit ies of daily liv
ing (ADL ) (D’Aliberti et al., 2017) . Post - stroke rehabilitation has witnessed the use of Isokinetic dynamometers , low - frequency trans cutaneous electrical nerve stimulation , and EMG devices, amongst others , to assist in retraining the affected muscles group(s). This is often performed within a laboratory setting , a hospital facility or through the use of wearable sensors at home . While the lab and hospital environments may seem rigorous to post - stroke patients and pose a range of logistical complexities , wearable sensors suffer from a range of problems relating to battery life, wearability and adoption. The resultant effect of these being the discontinuation of the rehabilitation process (Igual et al., 2013) . Opportunities therefore exist for the use of alternative and unobtrusive sensing solutions that can be used within home based settings . These have the potential to avoid the aforementioned issues of wearable technologies and also offer the added advantage of being able to be used within the home environment avoiding logistical issues for post stroke sufferers.