Deans' stroke musings: A wearable hand neuroprosthesis for hand rehabilitation after stroke: preliminary results of the RETRAINER S2 randomized controlled trial

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.

Monday, October 22, 2018

A wearable hand neuroprosthesis for hand rehabilitation after stroke: preliminary results of the RETRAINER S2 randomized controlled trial

Where the fuck is the protocol located? Acute or chronic cases?

A wearable hand neuroprosthesis for hand rehabilitation after stroke: preliminary results of the RETRAINER S2 randomized controlled trial

Franco Molteni
Mauro Rossini
Giulio Gasperini
Proserpio Davide
Karsten Krakow
Immick Nancy
Andreas Augsten
Johannes Zajc
Andrea Crema
Silvestro Micera

Franco Molteni
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Email author
Mauro Rossini
- 1
Giulio Gasperini
- 1
Proserpio Davide
- 1
Karsten Krakow
- 2
Immick Nancy
- 2
Andreas Augsten
- 2
Johannes Zajc
- 3
Andrea Crema
- 4
Silvestro Micera
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1.Villa Beretta Rehabilitation Center of Valduce HospitalCostamasnagaItaly
2.Asklepios Neurologische Klinik FalkensteinKönigsteinGermany
3.Ottobock Health Products GmbHViennaAustria
4.Ecole Polytechnique Federale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland

Conference paper

First Online: 16 October 2018

Part of the Biosystems & Biorobotics book series (BIOSYSROB, volume 21)

Abstract

Stroke is the main cause of permanent and complex long-term disability in adults. RETRAINER S2 is a system able to recover and support person’s ability to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADL) in early stage after stroke. The system is based on exercises for hand and wrist performed using Neuro Muscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES). This work describes the preliminary results of a multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) aimed at evaluating effectiveness of the system. The preliminary results were calculated on 18 patients who completed the protocol. Data is promising, the RETRANER S2 system seems to be a good tool for stroke rehabilitation. Data confirms also a general good usability of the system.