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, July 6, 2021

The Use of VR-Assisted Therapy in Post-Stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Your doctor can read the 9 pages of this dissertation and see what needs to be changed in your upper limb protocols to get to 100% recovery. 

The Use of VR-Assisted Therapy in Post-Stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

by Kevin Sprotte 
Advisor: Dr. Henry Sacks 
Background: Virtual Reality (VR) presents an exciting new method for upper limb rehabilitation that may provide an inexpensive and engaging at-home regimen for physical therapyin patients suffering a post-stroke motor deficit. Methods: This study is a systematic review and meta-analysis that included randomized, controlled trials that compared VR therapy to traditional physical therapy in patients with a motor deficit post-stroke. We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and SCOPUS databases for relevant studies that used the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) or the Box and Block Test (BBT) as outcomes of motor function. Results: 1,187 studies were obtained from the literature search, of which 25 were included in this review. Meta-analysis showed a significantly greater improvement in FMA scores among those who received VR therapy compared to conventional therapy. The difference in BBT improvement was not found to be significant
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