Deans' stroke musings: Increasing physical activity in stroke survivors using STARFISH, an interactive smartphone application: Protocol for a randomised 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.

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Increasing physical activity in stroke survivors using STARFISH, an interactive smartphone application: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Survivors don't care about increasing activity levels, that is a stupid intermediate measuring activity. They want 100% recovery, measure progress towards that. Once again research that will do nothing towards getting survivors recovered.

Increasing physical activity in stroke survivors using STARFISH, an interactive smartphone application: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Technology and Disability , Volume 30(1-2) , Pgs. 77-82.

NARIC Accession Number: J79809. What's this?
ISSN: 1055-4181.
Author(s): Paul, Lorna; Campbell, Evan; Gray, Cindy; Brewster, Stephen; Ramsay, Andrew; Gill, Jason M. R.; McFayden, Angus; Dybus, Aleksandra.
Publication Year: 2018.
Number of Pages: 6.
Abstract: Article presents the protocol for a single-blind, randomized controlled trial that will examine the effect of the STARFISH intervention on physical activity (PA) in stroke survivors, compared to usual care. STARFISH is a four-month, group-based, behavioral change intervention delivered via a smartphone app that was developed to help increase PA. One hundred twenty-eight community dwelling stroke survivors will be recruited, from four National Health Service boards in Scotland, and randomized to intervention or control groups. The interventional groups will use the STARFISH app. The control group will receive literature on PA post-stroke. Outcome measures will be taken at baseline, four months (end of the intervention), and two months post-intervention. The primary outcome will be objectively measured PA. Secondary outcome measures will be sedentary time, activity profiles, walking speed and endurance, fatigue, anxiety and depression, activities of daily living, quality of life and metabolic health-risk biomarkers. If improvements are found in the PA and health of stroke survivors then STARFISH could be deployed through app stores to allow implementation at scale.