Deans' stroke musings: Effects of Robot-Virtual Reality Compared with Robot Alone Training on Gait Kinetics of Individuals Post Stroke

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, December 19, 2019

Effects of Robot-Virtual Reality Compared with Robot Alone Training on Gait Kinetics of Individuals Post Stroke

With no discussion of getting to the only goal in stroke, 100% RECOVERY. This is useless.

Effects of Robot-Virtual Reality Compared with Robot Alone Training on Gait Kinetics of Individuals Post Stroke

Anat Mirelman, Benjamin L. Patritti , Paolo Bonato,
Senior Member,IEE E
, and Judith E. Deutsch

Abstract

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Virtual reality systems have been used to deliver goal directed repetitive training to promote rehabilitation of individuals post-stroke. Lower extremity training of individuals post-stroke who used a robot coupled with virtual environments was shown to transfer to improved over-ground locomotion. To elucidate an underlying mechanism that enabled this functional change we compared the kinetic outcomes of training with the robot-virtual reality (VR) system to the robot alone. Eighteen individuals post-stroke participated in a four-week training protocol. One group trained with the robot-VR system and the other group with the robot alone. Training parameters were comparable for the two groups; however, the improvements in moments and powers generated in the ankle and hip of subjects in the robot- VR group were significantly greater than those in the robot alone group. These findings demonstrate that lower extremity training using virtual environments coupled with a robot produced greater (greater is not good enough, 100% recovery is the goal. DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?)gait related strength gains than training with robot alone.