Deans' stroke musings: Balance and gait after first minor ischemic stroke in people 70 years of age or younger: A prospective observational cohort study

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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.

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Balance and gait after first minor ischemic stroke in people 70 years of age or younger: A prospective observational cohort study

Useless, you are describing a problem, offering NO SOLUTION. I'm even more disappointed in your mentors and senior researchers for allowing this crapola to be approved.

Balance and gait after first minor ischemic stroke in people 70 years of age or younger: A prospective observational cohort study

Physical Therapy , Volume 100(5) , Pgs. 798-806.

NARIC Accession Number: J83852. What's this?
ISSN: 0031-9023.
Author(s): Hamre, Charlotta ; Fure, Brynjar ; Helbostad, Jorunn L. ; Wyller, Torgeir B. ; Ihle-Hansen, Hege ; Vlachos, Georgios ; Ursin, Marie ; Tangen, Gro G..
Publication Year: 2020.
Number of Pages: 9.

Abstract:

Study investigated balance and gait in the acute phase and after 3 and 12 months in patients aged 70 years or younger with minor ischemic stroke. This study also explored factors predicting impaired balance after 12 months. This study included 101 patients recruited from 2 stroke units. Mean age was 55.5 years, 20 percent were female, and mild ischemic stroke was defined by a mean National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score of 0.6 points. Balance and gait were assessed with the Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (Mini-BESTest), Timed Up and Go (TUG), and preferred gait speed. Predictors for impaired balance were explored using logistic regression. The Mini-BESTest, gait speed, and TUG improved significantly from the acute phase to 3 months, and gait speed also improved from 3 to 12 months. At 12 months, 26 percent had balance impairments and 33 percent walked slower than 1.0 meter per second. Poor balance in the acute phase was the only predictor of balance impairments (Mini-BESTest score ≤22) at 12 months post stroke. Results showed improvements in both balance and gait during the follow-up; still, about one-third had balance or gait impairments at 12 months post stroke.(That is a complete indictment of the stroke hospital failures.) Balance in the acute phase predicted impaired balance at 12 months.
Descriptor Terms: AMBULATION, EQUILIBRIUM, OLDER ADULTS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, POSTURE, STROKE.

Can this document be ordered through NARIC's document delivery service*?: Y.

Citation: Hamre, Charlotta , Fure, Brynjar , Helbostad, Jorunn L. , Wyller, Torgeir B. , Ihle-Hansen, Hege , Vlachos, Georgios , Ursin, Marie , Tangen, Gro G.. (2020). Balance and gait after first minor ischemic stroke in people 70 years of age or younger: A prospective observational cohort study. Physical Therapy , 100(5), Pgs. 798-806. Retrieved 7/18/2020, from REHABDATA database.