Deans' stroke musings: The exercise tolerance test in stroke patients and the evaluation of influencing factors

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.

Saturday, September 8, 2018

The exercise tolerance test in stroke patients and the evaluation of influencing factors

I'm sure this is useful for something, but you'll have to guess the purpose.

The exercise tolerance test in stroke patients and the evaluation of influencing factors

Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , Volume 63(1) , Pgs. 50-58.

NARIC Accession Number: I244511. What's this?
Publication Year: 2017.
Abstract: The objective of this study was to examine the factors that may affect the Exercise Tolerance Test (ETT), when performed on ischemic stroke patients. This study, which was conducted between December 2012 and August 2014, included 42 patients (27 men; 15 women; mean age 54.4±14.3 years) who were admitted to and hospitalized at a rehabilitation clinic two weeks to six months after stroke, and who had sitting balance or were ambulatory. Patients’ age, gender, dominant hand, hemiplegic side, disease duration, comorbidities, drugs, premorbid exercise habits, and tobacco use were recorded. Patients performed cycling ergospirometry to determine their exercise capacity. After the test, maximum oxygen uptake (VO2) reached, metabolic equivalent, time spent on the test (EET time), load at the time the test was finalized, Borg Scale that indicates the patient’s degree of strain, maximal heart rate reached, forced expiratory volume at first second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), and FEV1/FVC values were recorded. Of the patients, 43% had hypertension, 35% had coronary artery disease, 33% had diabetes, 29% used beta blockers, 30% were cigarette smokers, 40% had right hemiparesis, and 6% had regular exercise habits. The use of beta-blockers was the only ETT effective factor among all parameters. Atrial fibrillation was developed in one patient as a side effect. These results indicate that, when creating an exercise plan, the consideration of the patients’ beta blocker use is important for the calculation of target heart rate.
Descriptor Terms: Exercise, Stroke, Tests.
Language: Turkish
Geographic Location(s): Turkey, Middle East.

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Citation: (2017). The exercise tolerance test in stroke patients and the evaluation of influencing factors. İnmeli hastalarda egzersiz tolerans testi ve etki eden faktörlerin değerlendirilmesi. Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 63(1), Pgs. 50-58. Retrieved 9/8/2018, from REHABDATA database.