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.

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Powered Hip Exoskeletons Can Reduce the User's Hip and Ankle Muscle Activations During Walking

Just the title alone sounds like this actually hinders true recovery. So if you get this, ask your doctor to clarify EXACTLY what needs to be done to strengthen those hip and ankle muscles. No response from your doctor? Call the president and ask when competent doctors will be hired. I take no prisoners in my quest to solve stroke. Incompetency can't be allowed to stand in the way of 100% recovery solutions. This sounds exactly like AFOs actually preventing dorsiflexion from ever coming back. They get you walking faster but at the cost of true recovery. 

Known for seven years, so that gives you an idea how fucking incompetent your doctors and stroke hospital are.  I suggest firings start at the top with the board of directors.

Powered Hip Exoskeletons Can Reduce the User's Hip and Ankle Muscle Activations During Walking

2013, IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
 T. Lenzi, Student Member IEEE, M.C. Carrozza, Member, IEEE, and S.K. Agrawal Member, IEEE

Abstract— 

In this paper, we study the human locomotor adaptation to the action of a powered exoskeleton providing assistive torque at the user’s hip during walking. To this end, we propose a controller that provides the user’s hip with a fraction of the nominal torque profile, adapted to the specific gait features of the user from Winter’s reference data [34]. The assistive controller has been implemented on the ALEX II exoskeleton and tested on ten healthy subjects. Experimental results show that when assisted by the exoskeleton, users can reduce the muscle effort compared to free walking. Despite providing assistance only to the hip joint, both hip and ankle muscles significantly reduced their activation, indicating a clear tradeoff between hip and ankle strategy to propel walking.

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