Deans' stroke musings: Comparison of Task Specific Exercises and Mirror Therapy to Improve Upper Limb Function in Subacute Stroke Patients

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, February 14, 2021

Comparison of Task Specific Exercises and Mirror Therapy to Improve Upper Limb Function in Subacute Stroke Patients

Unless you can find the protocols for this this research was wasted.

Comparison of Task Specific Exercises and Mirror Therapy to Improve Upper Limb Function in Subacute Stroke Patients

Sneha S. Khandare1
, R. M. Singaravelan2
, Subhash M. Khatri3
1
(Postgraduate student, College of Physiotherapy, PIMS, Loni- 413 736, India)

2
(Associate professor, College of Physiotherapy, PIMS, Loni- 413 736, India)
3
(Professor and Principal, College of Physiotherapy, PIMS, Loni- 413 736, India)

Abstract:

Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability. Approximately 70% to 80% of people sustaining astroke have upper limb (UL) impairment. Improving use of the affected UL is important however, because difficulty in using this UL in daily tasks has been associated with reduced quality of life. Additional effects of combining mirror therapy (MT) with Task Specific Exercises (TSE) to improve UL function post-stroke are unknown. Hence, primary objective of this study was to find out the effectiveness of combined TSE and MT interventions in sub-acute stroke patients to improve UL function and secondary objective was to compare the effectiveness of combined TSE and MT interventions with TSE alone and MT alone. Thirty-seven stroke patients were divided into 3 groups; Group A received TSE, Group B received MT and Group C received TSE as well as MT. Outcome measures were Action Research Arm Test, Fugl-Meyer Assessment and Voluntary Control Grading. All 3 groups showed statistically significant improvement on outcome measures but Group C improved more than the other 2 groups. Conclusion: TSE and MT interventions should be combined altogether in the treatment of sub-acute stroke patients to improve UL function.