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, February 25, 2019

Is Unilateral Spatial Neglect Associated With Motor Recovery of the Affected Upper Extremity Poststroke? A Systematic Review

Well shit, you want someone else to research and create protocols for this problem because YOU didn't do your job? We don't need more descriptions of problems we need solutions. Or are your mentor and senior researchers incompetent in not telling you the goal of all stroke research is 100% recovery? This review doesn't get survivors any closer to 100% recovery.

Oops, I'm not playing by the polite rules of Dale Carnegie,  'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. 
Politeness will never solve anything in stroke.

Is Unilateral Spatial Neglect Associated With Motor Recovery of the Affected Upper Extremity Poststroke? A Systematic Review

Noa Doron BOT, Debbie Rand, OT, PhD
First Published February 20, 2019 Review Article
https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968319832606

Abstract

Background and Purpose. Individuals with stroke often present symptoms of multiple domains, such as weakness of the affected upper extremity (UE) and unilateral spatial neglect (USN), which are both associated with poor functional outcome. The aims of this systematic review were to search and review studies that investigated (1) the relationship between USN and affected UE sensorimotor recovery poststroke and (2) the effectiveness of sensorimotor interventions to improve the affected UE in patients with USN.  
Methods. An electronic search of databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane CENTRAL) was conducted using a combination of the following terms: stroke, USN, and affected UE. Studies meeting the inclusion criteria were rated using a modified version of the Quality Index, and relevant data were extracted.  
Results. A total of 850 studies were identified, and 14 were included; 13 studies assessed correlations between USN and the affected UE capacity/recovery, and 1 study assessed an intervention to improve the UE of individuals with USN. An association between presence of USN and UE capacity/recovery was found in most studies and USN did not interfere with recovery of the affected UE in the single experimental study.  
Conclusions. USN is associated with poor UE motor capacity and less UE recovery poststroke. Therefore, these impairments should be considered when planning rehabilitation and discharge. Because USN is a well-researched phenomenon, the lack of studies and insufficient evidence related to UE interventions in individuals with USN was unexpected. These interventions should be developed and researched to improve UE and overall functional outcome poststroke.
Keywords recovery, rehabilitation, stroke
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