Deans' stroke musings: Early clinical predictors of motor function in the upper extremity one moth post-stroke

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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

Early clinical predictors of motor function in the upper extremity one moth post-stroke

Stop with this useless prediction crapola. Survivors don't care about predictions, they want protocols that lead to 100% recovery results. I would have you fired.

Early clinical predictors of motor function in the upper extremity one moth post-stroke

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (formerly the Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine) , Volume 49(3) , Pgs. 216-222.

NARIC Accession Number: J81398. What's this?
ISSN: 1650-1977.
Author(s): Snickars, Jenny; Persson, Hanna C.; Sunnerhagen, Katharina S..
Publication Year: 2017.
Number of Pages: 7.
Abstract: Study identified factors that, assessed within three days after stroke, could predict severe impairment in motor function in the upper extremity at one month after stroke. Data were analyzed for 104 patients with first-ever stroke and impaired motor function in the upper extremity in a Swedish stroke unit. Initial impairment in motor function, demographic data, type of stroke, and stroke risk factors were chosen as possible predictors. Severe impairment in motor function was defined as ≤31 points on the Fugl-Meyer Assessment for Upper Extremity. Logistic regression was used to predict severe impairment in motor function at one month after stroke. Three possible prediction models were found, comprising stroke severity combined with grip strength and sex, finger extension, or shoulder abduction. Models including grip strength or finger extension gave the most accurate predictions, with overall predictive ability of 90.4 percent. The findings suggest that within three days after stroke, severe impairment in motor function in the upper extremity at one month can be predicted using assessment of stroke severity in combination with grip strength, finger extension, or shoulder abduction. This may facilitate early planning of rehabilitation for patients with impaired upper extremity in the stroke unit.
Descriptor Terms: CLIENT CHARACTERISTICS, DEMOGRAPHICS, FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS, LIMBS, MEDICAL ASPECTS, MOBILITY IMPAIRMENTS, MOTOR SKILLS, OUTCOMES, PREDICTION, STROKE.

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Citation: Snickars, Jenny, Persson, Hanna C., Sunnerhagen, Katharina S.. (2017). Early clinical predictors of motor function in the upper extremity one moth post-stroke. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (formerly the Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine) , 49(3), Pgs. 216-222. Retrieved 8/20/2019, from REHABDATA database.