Deans' stroke musings: Functional vibratory stimulation on the hand facilitates voluntary movements of a hemiplegic upper limb in a patient with stroke

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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.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Functional vibratory stimulation on the hand facilitates voluntary movements of a hemiplegic upper limb in a patient with stroke

Previous vibration posts so your doctor doesn't even have to do any research or thinking. So ask for the protocol. I have #8.
1. Effects of whole-body vibration on muscle architecture, muscle strength, and balance in stroke: A randomized controlled trial
2. ,Vibrating Glove May Enhance Sense of Touch
3. No specific effect of whole-body vibration training in chronic stroke: a double-blind randomized controlled study.
4. ,Efficacy of whole body vibration exercise in older people: a systematic review
5. Quicker and easier rehabilitation following a stroke - vibration
6. Vibration and stroke rehab
7. Vibrostimulation in Bobsleigh
8. 7-speed Secret Love Finger Fun Vibrator Vibration Massager with Sexy Dice
9. Foot drop - Step Sensor by Brownmed
10. Touchy-feely options for stroke rehabilitation
11. Stroke rehab glove combines mental practice and muscle stimulation to improve hand function

The latest here:

,Functional vibratory stimulation on the hand facilitates voluntary movements of a hemiplegic upper limb in a patient with stroke

Izumi Shirahashi¹, Shuji Matsumoto, Megumi Shimodozono, Seiji Etoh, Kazumi Kawahira

Affiliations

PMID: 17762768
DOI: 10.1097/MRR.0b013e32829fa4b6

Abstract

The use of a new device consisting of a small vibrator to deliver functional vibratory stimulation (FVS) to the arm resulted in improvements of flexion of the hemiparetic shoulder in a man with thalamic bleeding. FVS delivered to the palm enabled the patient to repeat flexing his hemiparetic shoulder to manipulate objects with his hand. The functions of the patient's hemiparetic shoulder and fingers improved after treatments using FVS for 1 month. We examined whether FVS of the hemiplegic upper limb could facilitate voluntary movements of the limb by increasing the excitability of the motor cortex or the spinal motor neurons using somatosensory-evoked potentials, transcranial magnetic stimulation, F-wave, and single photon emission computed tomography. Our results did not detect an increase of excitability in the motor cortex or in spinal motor neurons by FVS.