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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, September 18, 2018
UK 'garden shed' inventors win prize for device to help stroke survivors
I can't figure out the Neuroball so you'll have to ask your doctor what precisely it is doing and what your doctor has that does the same recovery for you. Our stroke associations are so incompetent they are upstaged by backyard inventors for stroke recovery tools. With 10 million yearly stroke survivors needing stroke recovery tools the stroke association that starts creating and selling them could become heroes to survivors. But we have fucking failures of stroke associations instead.
Three British "garden shed" inventions have been celebrated for their ability to "truly impact society".
Image:The Neuroball could help hundreds of thousands of stroke survivors each year
By Alexander J Martin, technology reporter
A
"revolutionary device" which would help rehabilitate stroke survivors
has been declared the winner of a government-supported competition.
It was selected from a shortlist of 10 "garden shed
inventions" which could seriously transform people's lives in the
competition which was sponsored by innovation foundation Nesta.
The winning invention, Neuroball, is a device developed by UK-based
company Neurofenix, and it allows people who have suffered a stroke to
engage in rehabilitation exercises.
Inspired by relatives of the
firm's co-founders who suffered strokes, Neurofenix aims to improve the
life of stroke survivors who may not receive enough support after they
leave hospital.
By connecting to an online platform, the device
enables patients to improve dexterity in their hand and arm in
competitive and collaborative training.
The team behind the device
have been announced as the winners of the Inventors Prize, launched as
part of the government's industrial strategy last year.
They will
be given £50,000 to help get their product to market, where it could be
used to help the 1.2 million stroke survivors in the UK - with 100,000
more occurring every year.
"We are so excited to be selected as
the winners of the Inventor Prize, from the nine other brilliant and
inspiring entrepreneurs," said the Neurofenix team.
Image:Urologic's NuCatheter device won second prize in the competition
The competition was launched to find "Britain's grassroots and garden
shed inventors" and the £15,000 prize for second-place went to
Cambridge-based Urologic for their NuCath catheter device.
In the
UK over 500,000 serious urinary tract infections per year are contracted
as a result of indwelling catheters, and these account for up to 40% of
all hospital-acquired infections - with an annual mortality rate of
over 2,000.
The estimated cost to the NHS of treating these infections is around £2bn annually.
The
third prize of £5,000 was awarded to Edward Rogers for developing the
Canute, essentially a "Kindle for blind people", which Bristol Braille
have been working on in collaboration with the blind community,
including Steph Sergeant, for five years.
Image:The Canute 'kindle for Braille' machine scooped the third prize
The business secretary Greg Clark congratulated the three winning
inventors, saying: "From researchers in life-saving meds to start-ups in
garden sheds, we are home to some of the greatest minds in the world
delivering cutting-edge inventions to improve lives.
"I am proud to see three of the best being recognised through the Inventor Prize.
"This
is our modern Industrial Strategy in action, building an ecosystem in
which the UK's world-beating entrepreneurs and innovators can go from
strength to strength, with the brightest ideas of today turning into the
leading products of tomorrow."
Nesta's head of international
development, Constance Agyeman, said: "We've certainly witnessed our 10
shortlisted finalists going on incredible journeys as they turn their
dreams into reality."
The competitors have received "financial
support and professional mentoring helping them develop their
prototypes, source invaluable partners and suppliers and [to] create
business plans", said Ms Agyeman.
"We now hope all our entrants have been given the confidence
and expertise they need to turn their ideas into real products and that
they too continue their journeys."
"But we are especially excited
to support our three overall winners in getting their products into the
hands of consumers," she added.
Went on Neurofenix website - no proof of concept studies listed. 50,000 pounds to bring a product to market with no evidence that it changes outcomes is a red flag. How can a big ball that completely fills a stroke survivor's hand so it cannot interact with other object looks like it will inprove arm moment.
The winning invention, Neuroball, is a device developed by UK-based
company Neurofenix, and it allows people who have suffered a stroke to
engage in rehabilitation exercises.
Nonsense - if you and I could use the Neuroball - or video games, etc. - we'd be able to figure out recovery on our own, just as we continue to do.
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