Deans' stroke musings: The trunk control: Which is the best in very acute stroke patients?

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.

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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

The trunk control: Which is the best in very acute stroke patients?

Oh fuck. ASSESSMENT CRAPOLA AGAIN. Not a single stroke survivor in the world cares about assessment. They want stroke protocols that deliver rehab results leading to 100% recovery. I'd fire the mentors and senior researchers involved in this.

The trunk control: Which is the best in very acute stroke patients?

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 26(5) , Pgs. 359-365.

NARIC Accession Number: J81271. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Balkan, Ayla F.; Salci, Yeliz; Keklicek, Hilal; Cetin, Baris; Adin, Ridvan M.; Armutlu, Kadiye.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 7.
Abstract: Study determined the most appropriate scale used for trunk control assessment in very acute stroke patients in terms of time and ease of implementation. Sixty-five patients with very acute stroke were recruited from a hospital in Ankara, Turkey. All patients received physiotherapy program tailored to meet their needs during hospitalization. The patients were assessed with the Trunk Impairment Scale-1 (VTIS), the Trunk Impairment Scale-2 (FTIS), the Motor Assessment Scale trunk subscale (T-MAS) and the Trunk Control Test (TCT), and Functional Impairment Measure (FIM). Floor/ceiling effects, reliability, validity responsiveness of the four trunk-control scales analyzed. The correlation between the scales and FIM were calculated. All scales had similar reliability, responsiveness and construct validity level. T-MAS and TCT were more advantageous than other scales according to time. TCT and VTIS showed floor effect. The best predictive validity values were observed for the T-MAS and TCT. Findings indicate that the four scales investigated in this study can be used to evaluate the patients with very acute stroke. However, the advantages and disadvantages of the scales should be thoroughly assessed and researchers can use one of four scales after considering their aim, patient populations, and clinical characteristics of patients.
Descriptor Terms: ACUTE CARE, BODY MOVEMENT, MEASUREMENTS, MOTOR SKILLS, OUTCOMES, STROKE.

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Citation: Balkan, Ayla F., Salci, Yeliz, Keklicek, Hilal, Cetin, Baris, Adin, Ridvan M., Armutlu, Kadiye. (2019). The trunk control: Which is the best in very acute stroke patients?. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 26(5), Pgs. 359-365. Retrieved 8/20/2019, from REHABDATA database.