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 29, 2018

Effect of accelerometer-based feedback on physical activity in hospitalized patients with ischemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial

If you gave the same amount of attention and instructions to the control group the recovery would have been equal. This is simply the Hawthorne effect. Why are you ascribing recovery to the accelerometer? Do you not understand how research is done? 


Effect of accelerometer-based feedback on physical activity in hospitalized patients with ischemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial 


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Masashi Kanai, Kazuhiro P Izawa, Miki Kobayashi, ...
First Published February 5, 2018 Research Article
https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215518755841






Abstract


Objective:

To evaluate the effect of accelerometer-based feedback on physical activity in hospitalized patients with ischemic stroke.

Design:

Randomized controlled trial.

Setting:

Acute care hospital.

Subjects:

A total of 55 patients with ischemic stroke who could walk without assistance were randomly assigned to the intervention group (n = 27) or the control group (n = 28).

Interventions:

At the baseline measurement, patients did not receive accelerometer-based feedback. At follow-up, a physical therapist provided instruction on accelerometer-based feedback, discussed physical activity targets and encouraged the patients to walk more until discharge.

Main measures:

The average daily number of steps taken was used as the index of daily hospitalized physical activity.

Results:

The study sample consisted of 48 patients, of whom 23 patients comprised the intervention group and 25 patients comprised the control group. Although there were no significant differences in physical activity values between the two groups at the baseline measurement, the values in the intervention group at follow-up were significantly higher than those in the control group (5180.5 ± 2314.9 vs. 3113.6 ± 1150.9 steps/day, P = 0.0003). The effect size of physical activity values (Cohen’s d = 1.15) at follow-up was large between the two groups.

Conclusion:

Exercise training combined with accelerometer-based feedback effectively increased physical activity in hospitalized patients with ischemic stroke.
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