Deans' stroke musings: Characteristics of handwriting pen pressure and grip force by the non-dominant hand of the elderly

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.

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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.

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Characteristics of handwriting pen pressure and grip force by the non-dominant hand of the elderly

Wrong focus, you're teaching compensation rather than recovery. Patients want recovery, why are you going against their wishes?

Characteristics of handwriting pen pressure and grip force by the non-dominant hand of the elderly

高齢者の利き手でない方の手による手書き筆圧と握力の特徴. Japanese Occupational Therapy Research , Volume 38(1) , Pgs. 18-27.

NARIC Accession Number: I247487. What's this?
Author(s): Tomoko Uchida; Turo Nagao.
Publication Year: 2019.

Abstract:

The objective of this study was to examine the features of writing skill in the non-dominant hand of the elderly, and to help the training of switching hand dominance in stroke-related hemiplegic patients. Study participants were 38 elderly (age 74.2 ± 5.5) and 15 youths (age 20.5 ± 0.9), whose task was to trace over the outline of 8 types of symbols presented over a tablet screen. The successive tracings of the 8 types of symbols were counted as 1 session, which as consecutively repeated 10 times. Acquired data were pen pressure during performance (pen pressure) and the force exerted by the fingers against the pen during writing (grip force). Results indicated no significant within-group differences in either group. Regarding comparisons between the groups, pen pressure was lower in the elderly than in the youth in the first half of the drawing analysis. But the grip force was higher in the elderly than in the youth group. Therefore, as motor and sensory function decline during aging, leading to a tendency among the elderly to grip the pen more forcefully, occupational therapists need to consider appropriate interventions.
Descriptor Terms: Emotions, Operations research, Treatment.
Language: Japanese
Geographic Location(s): Japan, East & Southeast Asia.

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Citation: Tomoko Uchida, Turo Nagao. (2019). Characteristics of handwriting pen pressure and grip force by the non-dominant hand of the elderly. 高齢者の利き手でない方の手による手書き筆圧と握力の特徴. Japanese Occupational Therapy Research , 38(1), Pgs. 18-27. Retrieved 6/23/2022, from REHABDATA database.