Deans' stroke musings: Evaluating the use of robotic and virtual reality rehabilitation technologies to improve function in stroke survivors: A narrative 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.

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.

Friday, May 15, 2020

Evaluating the use of robotic and virtual reality rehabilitation technologies to improve function in stroke survivors: A narrative review

Tyranny of low expectations is on full display here. 'may further improve' is not appropriate, it should be will improve by following this protocol. If you can't get there, get the hell out of stroke.

Evaluating the use of robotic and virtual reality rehabilitation technologies to improve function in stroke survivors: A narrative review

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering , Volume 6

NARIC Accession Number: J83495. What's this?
ISSN: 2055-6683.
Author(s): Clark, William E. ; Sivan, Manoj ; O’Connor, Rory J..
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 7.
Abstract:
This review evaluated the effectiveness of robotic and virtual reality technologies used for neurological rehabilitation in stroke survivors. It examines each rehabilitation technology in turn before considering combinations of these technologies and the complexities of rehabilitation outcome assessment. There is high-quality evidence that upper-limb robotic rehabilitation technologies improve(NOT GOOD ENOUGH) movement, strength, and activities of daily living, while the evidence for robotic lower-limb rehabilitation is currently not as convincing. Virtual reality technologies also improve activities of daily living. While the benefit of these technologies over dose-controlled conventional rehabilitation is likely to be small, there is a role for both technologies as part of a broader rehabilitation program, where they may help to increase the intensity and amount of therapy delivered. Combining robotic and virtual reality technologies in a rehabilitation program may further improve rehabilitation outcomes and we would advocate randomized controlled trials of these technologies in combination.
Descriptor Terms: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, DAILY LIVING, FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS, LIMBS, LITERATURE REVIEWS, MOTOR SKILLS, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS, STROKE.

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Citation: Clark, William E. , Sivan, Manoj , O’Connor, Rory J.. (2019). Evaluating the use of robotic and virtual reality rehabilitation technologies to improve function in stroke survivors: A narrative review. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering , 6 Retrieved 5/15/2020, from REHABDATA database.