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.

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Individual Muscle Control using an Exoskeleton Robot for Muscle Function Testing

This is incredibly important, only 20 years old. If you can identify an individual muscle that is not working properly then you can go to muscle building sites and get EXACT exercises to work on those muscles.  This is your responsibility because your doctors and therapists have zero clues on how to get you recovered. My definition of recovery is 100%, your doctor and therapists will use the tyranny of low expectations to try to make you believe that their work to get you home and somewhat functioning is a success. If you didn't get to 100% recovery that failure is completely the fault of your doctor and therapists, they have had decades to get research going to solve all the problems in stroke. But DID NOTHING.

 Individual Muscle Control using an Exoskeleton Robot for Muscle Function Testing

2000, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
 Jun Ueda, Ding Ming, Vijaya Krishnamoorthy, Minoru Shinohara, and Tsukasa Ogasawara

 Abstract


 Healthy individuals modulate muscle activation pat- terns according to their intended movement and external environment. Persons with neurological disorders (e.g., stroke and spinal  cord injury), however, have problems in movement control due primarily to their inability to modulate their muscle activation pattern in an appropriate manner. A functionality test at the level of individual muscles that investigates the activity of a muscle of interest on various motor tasks may enable muscle-level force grading. To date there is no extant work that focuses on the application of exoskeleton robots to induce specific muscle activation in a systematic manner. This paper proposes a new method, named “individual muscle-force control” using a wearable robot (an exoskeleton robot, or a power-assisting device) to obtain a wider variety of muscle activity data than standard motor tasks, e.g., pushing a handle by hand. A computational algorithm systematically computes control commands to a wearable robot so that a desired muscle activation pattern for target muscle forces is induced. It also computes an adequate amount and direction of  a force that a subject needs to exert against a handle by his/her hand. This individual muscle control method enables users (e.g., therapists) to efficiently conduct neuromuscular function tests on target muscles by arbitrarily inducing muscle activation patterns.This paper presents a basic concept, mathematical formulation, and  solution of the individual muscle-force control and its implementation to a muscle control system with an exoskeleton-type robot for upper extremity. Simulation and experimental results in healthy individuals justify the use of an exoskeleton robot for future muscle function testing in terms of the variety of muscle activity data.
 

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