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, February 6, 2019

Abstract TMP46: EEG is a Useful Biomarker of Motor Recovery in Early Stroke Rehabilitation

Dammit, stop trying to predict recovery and just provide the means to get there. Survivors don't give a damn about predictions, they want recovery. Have you never talked to any survivor? 

Abstract TMP46: EEG is a Useful Biomarker of Motor Recovery in Early Stroke Rehabilitation

Originally publishedhttps://doi.org/10.1161/str.50.suppl_1.TMP46Stroke. 2019;50:ATMP46
Introduction: The application of biomarkers to study and monitor stroke recovery mechanisms can potentially advance rehabilitation practice and research. This study examined the utility of dense-array electroencephalography (EEG) for predicting and capturing changes in brain function in early stroke rehabilitation.
Hypothesis: Changes in EEG measures involving ipsi- and contralesional motor cortices (iM1 and cM1) in delta (1-3Hz) and high beta (20-30Hz) frequency bands [1] parallel and [2] predict motor recovery.
Methods: Individuals with recent ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) completed a 3-minute resting-state EEG recording and behavioral testing (Upper Extremity Fugl-Meyer (FM) and Functional Independence Measurement motor subscale (FIM-motor)) during hospitalization and 90-days post-stroke. EEG power and coherence (connectivity) measures were computed from leads overlying iM1 and cM1.
Results: Twenty-seven subjects (20 males, age 58.3±14.6 years, 14.7±12.8 days post-stroke) participated. Greater decrease in iM1-cM1 coherence in the delta band correlated significantly with larger (a) FIM-motor score improvement from IRF admission to discharge (r=-0.70, p=0.001, n=18) and (b) FM score improvement from IRF admission to 90-days post-stroke (r=-0.57, p=0.02, n=17). Baseline EEG measures did not predict motor recovery when examined across the entire group. Performance of biomarkers varies according to stroke severity, and so prediction was further examined in relation to baseline FM. In subjects with moderate-severe impairment (FM≤40), delta iM1-cM1 coherence at baseline correlated with FIM-motor gains (r=0.72, p=0.03, n=9), and delta power in leads over iM1 positively correlated with FM gains (a) from IRF admission to discharge (r=0.75, p=0.03, n=8) and (b) from IRF admission to 90-days post-stroke (r=0.73, p=0.04, n=8).
Conclusions: Bedside EEG recording in the IRF provides neurophysiological insights that predict and parallel motor recovery, and so may be a valuable bedside tool in early stroke rehabilitation. EEG measures can predict motor recovery in individuals with moderate-severe motor impairment.

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