Deans' stroke musings: Comparative assessment of two robot-assisted therapies for the upper extremity in people with chronic stroke

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.

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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, April 24, 2019

Comparative assessment of two robot-assisted therapies for the upper extremity in people with chronic stroke

Useless because no protocol was created and had no objective starting point. So it is not repeatable. We don't need incredibly lazy words like 'might'. Survivors want definitive results. Do this, you get this result. This is so fucking simple. Who is going to inform researchers that that is the expected result of all stroke rehab research?

Comparative assessment of two robot-assisted therapies for the upper extremity in people with chronic stroke

American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) , Volume 73(1) , Pgs. 7301205010.

NARIC Accession Number: J80499. What's this?
ISSN: 0272-9490.
Author(s): Hung, Chung-shan; Hsieh, Yu-wei; Wu, Ching-yi; Lin, Keh-chung; Lin, Jui-chi; Yeh, Li-min; Yin, Hsin-pei.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 9.
Abstract: Study investigated the effects of two robot-assisted therapies (RT) on motor and daily function in people with chronic stroke using the Bi-Manu-Track (BMT) and InMotion 3.0 (IMT) robots compared with control treatment (CT). Thirty participants were randomized to the BMT, IMT, or CT group. All participants in the three groups received interventions of 90–100 minutes per day, 5 days a week, for 4 weeks. The intervention began with 5 minutes of muscle tone normalization as needed. The BMT and IMT groups received 70–75 minutes of RT. After the RT, functional-based activities were practiced for 20 minutes. The following outcome measures were administered before and immediately after the intervention by the same assessor for each participant: Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), Motor Activity Log (MAL), and Medical Research Council (MRC) scale. The IMT group improved more in FMA and proximal MAS scores than the BMT group and the CT group. The IMT and BMT groups showed clinically relevant improvements after treatment on the MRC rather than the MAL. The results indicate that the IMT might improve motor function. The IMT and BMT groups showed similar benefits for muscle power but limited improvements in self-perceived use of the affected arm.
Descriptor Terms: BODY MOVEMENT, DAILY LIVING, LIMBS, MOTOR SKILLS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS, STROKE.

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Citation: Hung, Chung-shan, Hsieh, Yu-wei, Wu, Ching-yi, Lin, Keh-chung, Lin, Jui-chi, Yeh, Li-min, Yin, Hsin-pei. (2019). Comparative assessment of two robot-assisted therapies for the upper extremity in people with chronic stroke. American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) , 73(1), Pgs. 7301205010. Retrieved 4/23/2019, from REHABDATA database.