We don't need another stupid recovery prediction. We need protocols that will increase our walking speed to what is necessary to rejoin the normal world. This absolute stupidity is all because we have NO STROKE LEADERSHIP ENFORCING RESEARCH THAT FOLLOWS THE DEFINED STROKE STRATEGY THAT GETS ALL SURVIVORS TO 100% RECOVERY. Until this is understood and followed by our stroke medical professionals we will never get to 100% recovery. My suggestion would be to fire everyone in stroke and start over.
Walking speed in stroke patients major determinant of recovery
A study done by Manchester
Metropolitan University has discovered that the speed of a patient’s
walk recovering from heart stroke is the best way to gauge if that
person can get back to work. Researchers investigating the phenomenon
were working with physiotherapists and patients in Wales. The project
involves moving rehabilitation centers outdoors like Brecon Beacons to
adopt new rehabilitation that are being developed to assist young
patients of heart strokes.
Though the average age for stroke in UK
is 72 for men and 78 for women but there has been a rise of 40 % stroke
cases worldwide among people under 65 years within last decade say
researchers. The study looked at 46 patients across Wales region that
had a stroke before 65 years and observed that only 3 % of them were
able to return to regular work. It also discovered that walking speed of
a young adult was a key indicator of the individual’s ability to return
back to work.
Researchers calculated that walking speed
threshold of 0.93m/s or 3 feet per second was the ideal benchmark for
returning back to work. They believe that this is the goal that
therapists should set for rehabilitation of stroke patients. At Powys
based Talybont-on-Usk, young stroke patients were taken on walks near
Brecon Canal and Monmouthshire by research team. They wanted to find out
if providing fresh air and setting walking goals can help stroke
patients to start leading active lives again in the outdoors.
According to Manchester University’s
Hanna Jarvis, stroke rehabilitation is usually focused on older people
but young patients have specific needs and they want to live life as
completely as possible. She said that most of her institute’s patients
want to walk outside in the open air to gain confidence of walking in
challenging environment. Dr. Jarvis stated that key aim for all young
adults recovering from stroke is to return back to work and their
research will help to understand how to help them return back to work.
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