Deans' stroke musings: Effects of trunk rehabilitation with kinesio and placebo taping on static and dynamic sitting postural control in individuals with chronic stroke: A randomized controlled trial

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.

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Effects of trunk rehabilitation with kinesio and placebo taping on static and dynamic sitting postural control in individuals with chronic stroke: A randomized controlled trial

This from one of my earlier posts is all I know about this taping, I had it on my shoulders but no clue if it did anything.

To summarize, elastic therapeutic taping seeks to improve blood flow and drainage by lifting the skin to create separation between the muscle and dermis layers.

Effects of trunk rehabilitation with kinesio and placebo taping on static and dynamic sitting postural control in individuals with chronic stroke: A randomized controlled trial

Yong-Hun Cho

, Kyun-Hee Cho

& Shin-Jun Park

ABSTRACT

Background: Impaired trunk postural control is common after stroke. Combining kinesio taping with trunk rehabilitation has been shown to enhance the recovery of postural control ability in patients with stroke.
Objective: We investigated whether the combination of kinesio taping with trunk rehabilitation would improve dynamic and static sitting stability after stroke.
Methods: Twenty-eight patients with stroke were recruited and randomly assigned to one of the two 8-week trunk rehabilitation programs with kinesio (experimental group) or placebo taping (control group). Outcome measures were dynamic forward, dynamic backward, affected-side, and unaffected-side sway areas, static sway area and length, and the total limit of stability (LOS) area. The variables were measured using the BioRescue analysis system. All outcome measures were assessed at baseline and after 8 weeks of trunk rehabilitation.
Results: Significant increases were observed in the dynamic forward, dynamic backward, affected-side, and unaffected-side sway areas, and the total LOS area, in the experimental and control groups, whereas decreases were observed in the static sway area and length. The dynamic forward sway area was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group, but there were no significant differences between the groups in the other variables.
Conclusions: Trunk rehabilitation is effective for improving dynamic and static sitting stability after stroke. The addition of kinesio taping to the back muscles further increases forward mobility.