Deans' stroke musings: Change in Intramuscular Fat in the Quadriceps of Stroke Patients in a Convalescent Rehabilitation Ward: A Case Report

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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.

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Change in Intramuscular Fat in the Quadriceps of Stroke Patients in a Convalescent Rehabilitation Ward: A Case Report

I can't see any use for this at all in getting survivors 100% recovered.

Change in Intramuscular Fat in the Quadriceps of Stroke Patients in a Convalescent Rehabilitation Ward: A Case Report

回復期リハビリテーション病棟入院脳卒中患者の大腿四頭筋における筋内脂肪量の縦断的変化：症例報告. Rigakuryoho Kagaku , Volume 34(1) , Pgs. 135-141.

NARIC Accession Number: I245424. What's this?
Author(s): Taisei ISHIMOTO; Asami TOMARI; Naoki AKAZAWA.
Publication Year: 2019.
Abstract: The objective of this study was to investigate the change in in the quadriceps of stroke patients in a convalescent rehabilitation ward. Participants were two stroke patients in a convalescent rehabilitation ward. Intramuscular fat in the quadriceps of the paretic and non-paretic limbs was measured using transverse ultrasound imaging, at admission and 3 months later. Intramuscular fat of both patients decreased after a 3-month hospital stay [case A (paretic side: −2%, non-paretic side: −12.1%); case B (paretic side: −30.7%, non-paretic side: −25.1%)]. The participants' Functional Independence Measure and Fugl-Meyer lower extremity scores after 3 months’ stay were higher than those at admission. Intramuscular fat in the quadriceps of stroke patients in a convalescent rehabilitation ward may decrease after a 3-month rehabilitation program together with improvement of lower limb function.
Descriptor Terms: Functional capacity, Lower extremities, Muscles, Rehabilitation, Stroke.
Language: Japanese
Geographic Location(s): Japan, East & Southeast Asia.

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Citation: Taisei ISHIMOTO, Asami TOMARI, Naoki AKAZAWA. (2019). Change in Intramuscular Fat in the Quadriceps of Stroke Patients in a Convalescent Rehabilitation Ward: A Case Report. 回復期リハビリテーション病棟入院脳卒中患者の大腿四頭筋における筋内脂肪量の縦断的変化：症例報告. Rigakuryoho Kagaku , 34(1), Pgs. 135-141. Retrieved 8/20/2019, from REHABDATA database.