Deans' stroke musings: Diversified Innovation Strategies for an Early Limb Rehabilitation Program in Patients With 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.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Diversified Innovation Strategies for an Early Limb Rehabilitation Program in Patients With Stroke

So instead of having an objective of delivering limb rehab results they lazily went for increasing the percentage of patients getting early rehab. To me this is a complete failure in stroke research.

Diversified Innovation Strategies for an Early Limb Rehabilitation Program in Patients With Stroke

[Article in Chinese; Abstract available in Chinese from the publisher]

Hsu CW¹, Lin YH², Chang SY³, Tsai PJ⁴, Shen TC⁴, Lin YL⁵.

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Abstract

in English, Chinese

BACKGROUND & PROBLEMS:

Early rehabilitation after stroke is important for the recovery of bodily functions in stroke patients. However, the percentage of completion of early limb rehabilitation among stroke patients is only 16%.

PURPOSE:

Raise the early rehabilitation intervention rate to 88% for patients with stroke within 24 hours of hospitalization.

RESOLUTION:

We developed an education course on post-stroke rehabilitation and a related e-Learning course as well as organized an 'alliance for recovery' team. In addition, we established a standard for post-stroke relay rehabilitation and designed rehabilitation relay cards, Xbox rehabilitation games, and nine squares challenge for brain stroke care.

RESULTS:

The accuracy of the knowledge of nursing staff related to physical rehabilitation improved from 72.4% to 100%; the accuracy of their perceptions regarding early limb rehabilitation increased from 16% to 100%; and patient satisfaction increased from 68% to 98%.

CONCLUSIONS:

We deployed diverse and innovative strategies to assist limb rehabilitation in patients with stroke. Patients and caregivers should be encouraged to participate in early rehabilitation and related programs and should apply the skills and rehabilitation activities learned to daily life.