Deans' stroke musings: Effectiveness of focal muscle vibration on hemiplegic upper extremity spasticity in individuals with stroke: A systematic review

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.

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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.

Friday, May 15, 2020

Effectiveness of focal muscle vibration on hemiplegic upper extremity spasticity in individuals with stroke: A systematic review

It it even remotely works then write up a provisional protocol and distribute it to all 10 million yearly stroke survivors. Then contact stroke leadership and have followup research on this added to the stroke strategy. High priority.

Effectiveness of focal muscle vibration on hemiplegic upper extremity spasticity in individuals with stroke: A systematic review

Neurorehabilitation , Volume 45(4) , Pgs. 471-481.

NARIC Accession Number: J83363. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Alashram, Anas R. ; Padua, Elvira ; Romagnoli, Cristian ; Annino, Giuseppe.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 11.

Abstract:

This systematic review investigated the effects of focal muscle vibration (FMV) on individuals with stroke and identified the effective training protocol in reducing post-stroke upper-extremity spasticity. FMV is a technique that applies a vibratory stimulus to a specific muscle or its tendon using a mechanical device. SCOPUS, PEDro, PUBMED, REHABDATA, and Web of Science databases were searched for relevant randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and pseudo-RCTs published in English that included the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) as the outcome measure. Eight articles published from 2012 to 2019 involving a total of 268 patients met the inclusion criteria for the review. The methodological quality of the included trials was evaluated using the Cochrane Collaboration's instrument. Effect sizes were calculated. The methodological quality ranged from moderate to high. FMV showed some evidence in reducing hemiplegic upper-extremity spasticity in patients with stroke. Overall, the findings suggest that FMV may be an efficient intervention in reducing upper-extremity spasticity in the stroke population. However, the efficient treatment protocol and dosage remain unclear. Additional randomized controlled trials are strongly needed to study the effects of FMV on spasticity in individuals with stroke.
Descriptor Terms: BODY MOVEMENT, INTERVENTION, LIMBS, LITERATURE REVIEWS, MUSCLES, OUTCOMES, REHABILITATION, SPASTICITY, STROKE.

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Citation: Alashram, Anas R. , Padua, Elvira , Romagnoli, Cristian , Annino, Giuseppe. (2019). Effectiveness of focal muscle vibration on hemiplegic upper extremity spasticity in individuals with stroke: A systematic review. Neurorehabilitation , 45(4), Pgs. 471-481. Retrieved 5/15/2020, from REHABDATA database.