Deans' stroke musings: Greater Transfer to Walking of Lower Extremity Training with Robotics and Virtual Reality than Robotics Training Alone: Preliminary Findings

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.

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Greater Transfer to Walking of Lower Extremity Training with Robotics and Virtual Reality than Robotics Training Alone: Preliminary Findings

Where the fuck is the publicly available protocol for this? No protocol or not publicly available then totally useless. As you can see 14.5 years of incompetency already.

Greater Transfer to Walking of Lower Extremity Training with Robotics and Virtual Reality than Robotics Training Alone: Preliminary Findings

Conference Paper
· January 2006
DOI: 10.1109/IWVR.2006.1707545 · Source: IEEE Xplore
Anat Mirelman, Judith E. Deutsch and Paolo Bonato

Abstract

— Virtual reality systems have been used to deliver goal directed repetitive training to promote rehabilitation of individuals post-stroke. Lower extremity training of individuals post-stroke who used a robot coupled with virtual environment has been shown to transfer to improved overground locomotion. To isolate the active components of training in this study we compared the outcomes of training with the robot-virtual reality (VR) system to the robot alone. Four individuals post-stroke participated in a four-week training protocol. One group trained with the robot-VR system and the other group with the robot alone. The improvement in walking speed and endurance for the robot- VR group was greater than the robot group alone. Adherence as well as the number of exercises performed in each session was comparable for the two groups. The duration of training sessions was comparable at the beginning of the study. However, subjects in the robot group reported higher fatigue and produced 16% fewer minutes of training towards the end of the study. These findings support the use of virtual environments coupled with a robot for transfer of training from the virtual to the real world environment.