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, April 30, 2020

Using Mirror Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation

What a fucking waste. There should never be a need for these simple review articles. 

An absolute waste of time because our fucking failures of stroke associations have not set up a database of all stroke research with instructions to update as new info comes in.

Using Mirror Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation


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2020-04-25
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Adamjee, Mashal S.
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In the United States, strokes are known to kill over 140,000 people every year and effect mobility in more than 50 percent of stroke survivors (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). It is a debilitating disease that befalls when blood vessels transporting nutrients to the brain are disrupted by a blood-clot or rupture of a vessel. While many rehabilitative therapies are available to those who have suffered from a stroke, there is one therapy that may benefit stroke survivors more than just conventional therapies. Mirror therapy (MT), a therapy that utilizes a mirror box to create an optical illusion, may be one way to help survivors to recover their lost motor functions. MT can aid rehabilitation by using a mirror to produce a reflection of a person’s unaffected limb in place of the affected limb when performing tasks. When the unaffected extremity is shifted, the mirror image allows the brain to believe that the affected limb is moving. These optical illusions allow the patients to feel as if their two extremities are moving symmetrically. This literature review focuses on how mirror therapy is utilized in practice today and if it should be incorporated as a conventional therapy for stroke rehabilitation. Peer reviewed journal articles have been dissected from the databases CINAHL Complete and MEDLINE. Through the review process, it was revealed that while mirror therapy on its own did not show any significant changes in overall motor functionality, mirror therapy in combination with conventional therapy has the potential to have statistically significant results.
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