Deans' stroke musings: Speed Stroke Recovery With Exercise

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.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Speed Stroke Recovery With Exercise

Useless crapola but great conscience laundering for those involved with this. NO PROTOCOL.

Speed Stroke Recovery With Exercise

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter

(HealthDay)

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Aerobic exercise significantly improves stroke survivors' endurance and walking ability, researchers report.

They analyzed 19 studies that included nearly 500 stroke survivors, aged 54 to 71, who completed aerobic exercise programs similar in structure to cardiac rehabilitation.

The patients did two or three aerobics workouts a week for about three months. Walking was the most common type of activity, followed by stationary cycling and mixed aerobic exercise. The patients' endurance and walking speed was tested before and after they completed the programs.

Overall, the patients had significant improvements. After completing the therapy, they walked an average of nearly half the length of a football field farther during a six-minute walking test. Those with mild movement impairments had the best results.

"These benefits were realized regardless of how long it had been since their stroke," said study lead author Elizabeth Regan, a Ph.D. candidate in exercise science at the University of South Carolina.

Mixed aerobic exercise provided the greatest improvement, followed by walking, cycling and recumbent stepping -- a machine that allows stepping while in a seated position.

The study was published Aug. 14 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

"Our analysis included stroke survivors across a wide range, from less than six months to greater than a year since their stroke, and the benefits were seen whether they started an aerobic exercise program one month or one year after having a stroke," Regan explained in a journal news release.

Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the United States. Physical therapy is often prescribed for stroke survivors to improve physical impairments. Most current stroke rehabilitation has little to no focus on aerobic fitness.

"The physical therapy we currently provide to patients after a stroke focuses more on improving the ability to move and move well rather than on increasing how far and long you can move," Regan said. "It doesn't matter how well you can walk if your endurance level keeps you at home."

Study co-author Stacy Fritz, an associate professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina, said that cardiac rehab programs may offer benefits to stroke patients "who have health risks and endurance losses similar to traditional cardiac rehab participants.

"Almost every hospital has a cardiac rehab program, so it's an existing platform that could be used for stroke survivors. Funneling patients with stroke into these existing programs may be an easy, cost-effective solution with long-term benefits," Fritz said.

More information

The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has more on stroke rehabilitation.