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.

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

How to identify fatigue in stroke patients: An investigation of the post-stroke fatigue case definition validity

Why not make this even simpler, ask the patient; 'Can you get thru the day without needing a nap?' Y/N? Then you provide them with SOLUTIONS/PROTOCOLS  to fix that fatigue.  

At least half of all stroke survivors experience fatigue Or is it 70%?

Or is it 40%?

They need solutions, not useless research like this crapola. 

 How to identify fatigue in stroke patients: An investigation of the post-stroke fatigue case definition validity

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 27(5) , Pgs. 369-376.

NARIC Accession Number: J84059.  What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Poulsen, Mai B. ; Skovbølling, Sara L. ; Kruuse, Christina ; Overgaard, Karsten ; Rasmussen, Rune S..
Publication Year: 2020.
Number of Pages: 8.

Abstract: 

Study assessed the validity and inter-rater agreement of the case definition of post-stroke fatigue and determined the optimal cutoff scores for significant fatigue on the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20 (MFI-20) and the Fatigue Severity Scale-7 (FSS-7) questionnaires. Seventy stroke patients were interviewed with the structured interview schedule for the case definition and asked to complete the two questionnaires. To examine the inter-rater agreement of the case definition a second interviewer did another interview blinded to the result of the first interview. The median age of participants was 74 years and the median time from stroke to interview was 8 days. The median FSS-7 score and the median MFI-20 (General Fatigue subscale) score were higher in the case definition positive than in the negative group. The kappa value for the inter-rater agreement was 0.63. A cutoff score equal to or greater than 5 for the FSS-7 and a cutoff score equal to or greater than 12 on the MFI-20 were optimal to identify marked fatigue according to the case definition.
Descriptor Terms: CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, DISABILITY DETERMINATION, INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES, MEASUREMENTS, OUTCOMES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, REHABILITATION, STROKE.


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Get this Document: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10749357.2019.1704387.

Citation: Poulsen, Mai B. , Skovbølling, Sara L. , Kruuse, Christina , Overgaard, Karsten , Rasmussen, Rune S.. (2020). How to identify fatigue in stroke patients: An investigation of the post-stroke fatigue case definition validity.  Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 27(5), Pgs. 369-376. Retrieved 8/19/2020, from REHABDATA database.
 

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