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.

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Motor imagery and stroke rehabilitation: a critical discussion

So 9 pages of discussion resulting in absolutely NO PROTOCOLS. Useless. Although you can look up the one use of the word protocol if you want. 

Motor imagery and stroke rehabilitation: a critical discussion


Motor disorders are a frequent consequence of stroke and much effort is invested in the re-acquisition of motor control. Although patients often regain some of their lost function after therapy, most remain chronically disabled. Functional recovery is achieved largely through reorganization processes in the damaged brain. Neural reorganization depends on the information provided by sensorimotor efferent-afferent feedback loops. it has, however, been shown that the motor system can also be activated ”offline” by imagining (motor imagery) or observing movements. the discovery of mirror neurones, which fire not only when an action is executed, but also when one observes another person performing the same action, also show that our action system can be used ”online” as well as offline. It is an intriguing question as to whether the information provided by motor imagery or motor observation can lead to functional recovery and plastic changes in patients after stroke. this article reviews the evidence for motor imagery or observation as novel methods in stroke rehabilitation. Key words: motor imagery, mirror neurones, rehabilitation, stroke.

J Rehabil Med 2007; 39: 5–13 Correspondence address: Sjoerd de Vries, Centre for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 196, NL-9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands. E-mail: s.j.de.vries@rug.nl Submitted August 24, 2006; accepted October 31, 2006

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