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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, November 16, 2021

Virtual reality as a new tool for the rehabilitation of post-stroke patients with chronic aphasia: an exploratory study

Interesting, but by the time you are considered chronic your insurance would have stopped paying for rehab.

Virtual reality as a new tool for the rehabilitation of post-stroke patients with chronic aphasia: an exploratory study

Rosaria De Luca
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Simona Leonardi
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Giuseppa Maresca
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Foti Cuzzola Marilena
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Desiree Latella
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Federica Impellizzeri
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Received 22 Mar 2020, Accepted 24 Oct 2021, Published online: 11 Nov 2021

ABSTRACT

Background

In recent years, innovative interactive technologies, such as virtual reality, have emerged as a valuable approach in the rehabilitation of aphasia. Indeed, they offer the opportunity to practice activities that are not or cannot be usually carried out within the clinical environment, and that are aimed at increasing cognitive and motor domains.

Aims

The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and the long-term effects of the BTS-Nirvana, a rehabilitative device that uses semi-immersive virtual reality in the treatment of chronic post-stroke aphasia.

Methods and Procedures

Thirty patients with non-fluent aphasia due to first ever ischemic stroke (mean ± SD age: 51.2 ± 11.3 years) were enrolled in this study and randomized into either a control group (n = 15) undergoing conventional speech and cognitive training or an experimental group (n = 15) receiving the same amount of training using BTS-Nirvana.

Outcomes and Results

The “Esame Neuropsicologico per l’Afasia” (ENPA) subtests (repetition, reading, naming, writing, and calculation) and the Token test were the main outcome measures. After the training (T1), the experimental group achieved a greater improvement in Token test, reading, naming, and calculation than the control group. Notably, these positive outcomes were maintained at the 6-month follow-up (T2).

Conclusions

These results support previous findings that virtual reality can be considered a useful complementary treatment to potentiate functional recovery of speech ability in patients affected by post-stroke aphasia.

 
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