Deans' stroke musings: Misperception of the subjective visual vertical in neurological patients with or without stroke: A meta-analysis

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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

Misperception of the subjective visual vertical in neurological patients with or without stroke: A meta-analysis

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Misperception of the subjective visual vertical in neurological patients with or without stroke: A meta-analysis

Neurorehabilitation , Volume 44(3) , Pgs. 379-388.

NARIC Accession Number: J81310. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Molina, Francisco; Lomas-Vega, Rafael; Obrero-Gaitan, Esteban; Rus, Alma; Almagro, Daniel R.; del-Pino-Casado, Rafael.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 10.
Abstract: Study analyzed the visual perception of the verticality in neurological patients in comparison with healthy controls. The interpretation of the verticality of the environment is crucial for a proper body balance. The subjective visual vertical (SVV) test is a widely used method to determine the visual perception of the verticality, i.e., the ability of the subject to evaluate if a rod is aligned with the real vertical position (gravity line), without any external visual reference. Deviations in the SVV have been related to poor functional status. PubMed, Scopus, and Scielo databases were searched from the start of the databases until October 2017 and manually searched the reference lists of studies comparing SVV values between neurological patients and controls. Standardized mean difference (SMD) and subgroup analysis were used to analyze differences between neurological patients and healthy subjects and between stroke and non-stroke patients, respectively. A total of 1,916 subjects from 31 studies were included. Neurological patients misestimate the true vertical in comparison with controls (SMD = 1.05). The misperception of the verticality was higher in stroke patients (SMD = 1.35) than in patients with other neurological conditions (SMD = 0.48). Neurological patients showed a misperception of the verticality, estimated using the SVV. The neurological pathology that most alters the SVV is stroke.
Descriptor Terms: EQUILIBRIUM, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, PERCEPTION, STROKE.

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Citation: Molina, Francisco, Lomas-Vega, Rafael, Obrero-Gaitan, Esteban, Rus, Alma, Almagro, Daniel R., del-Pino-Casado, Rafael. (2019). Misperception of the subjective visual vertical in neurological patients with or without stroke: A meta-analysis. Neurorehabilitation , 44(3), Pgs. 379-388. Retrieved 8/20/2019, from REHABDATA database.