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.

Sunday, December 30, 2018

EFFECTS OF TAI CHI APPLIED STROKE REHABILITATION ON PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AND QUALITY OF LIFE

You mean these earlier writeups on Tai chi were not enough to prove it works for stroke rehab and to create a protocol? Why is followup needed? You didn't do your job correctly and create Tai chi protocols? So you have been incompetent since April 2013?

 

EFFECTS OF TAI CHI APPLIED STROKE REHABILITATION ON PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AND QUALITY OF LIFE

R Song and S Ahn
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Abstract

Older stroke survivors decline their physical and psychological functioning in everyday life. Tai Chi is characterized by the integration and balance of mind and body using the fundamental principles of slow, smooth, and continuous movement control. The present randomized study aimed to apply the suggested principles to Tai Chi applied stroke rehabilitation for 6 months, and to evaluate the effects on physical and cognitive functioning, and quality of life. We recruited 34 stroke survivors (21 men and 13 women with the mean diagnosis 8.7 years) into a randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of 6-month adaptive Tai Chi program with an active-control group who received a symptom management program. The primary outcome was postural stability(BBS) and physical functioning(FAC), with secondary outcomes assessing cognitive functioning(MOCA) and stroke-specific quality of life measured at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months. Repeated ANOVA indicated that stroke survivors who participated in 80% of Tai Chi applied rehabilitation showed improved physical functioning (F=6.776, p=.002), cognitive functioning (F=12.40, p<.000), and self-care quality of life (F=8.822, p=.001) based on interaction effects. Tai Chi applied stroke rehabilitation was well received by the participants, and no adverse events were reported during the study. The study findings showed that the adaptive form of Tai Chi could be useful for stroke survivors to improve their physical and cognitive functioning, that may consequently improve quality of life. Further studies are warranted to examine the long-term effect of Tai Chi applied stroke rehabilitation with larger sample to compensate the variance of outcomes.

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