Deans' stroke musings: Development and psychometric testing of the bimanual assessment measure for people with chronic stroke

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.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Development and psychometric testing of the bimanual assessment measure for people with chronic stroke

Assessments DO NOTHING to get survivors recovered. Will you please just create protocols that deliver recovery? That is what survivors want, not this useless assessment crapola!

Development and psychometric testing of the bimanual assessment measure for people with chronic stroke

American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) , Volume 76(4) , Pgs. 7604205030.

NARIC Accession Number: J89981. What's this?
ISSN: 0272-9490.
Author(s): Johnson, Brian P.; Whitall, Jill; Waller, Sandy M.; Westlake, Kelly P..
Publication Year: 2022.
Number of Pages: 8.
Abstract:

Study developed and tested the reliability and validity of the Bimanual Assessment Measure (BAM), which assesses hand coordination in people with chronic stroke. Items were selected as meaningful tasks that represented a range of bimanual coordination requirements (e.g., symmetrical forces and timing, asymmetrical forces and timing, time-limited reactive movement). Focus groups of people with stroke and occupational therapists provided input into BAM development. The BAM was found to have excellent reliability and internal consistency and face and known-groups validity. The BAM is a valid, reliable measure for people with chronic stroke that identifies bimanual coordination deficits beyond unimanual impairments and the potential capacity for people to return to pre-stroke hand roles(Well where the fuck are the protocols that deliver that result?) (i.e., as a manipulator).
Descriptor Terms: DEXTERITY, MEASUREMENTS, MOTOR SKILLS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, OUTCOMES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, STROKE.

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Citation: Johnson, Brian P., Whitall, Jill, Waller, Sandy M., Westlake, Kelly P.. (2022). Development and psychometric testing of the bimanual assessment measure for people with chronic stroke. American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) , 76(4), Pgs. 7604205030. Retrieved 10/25/2022, from REHABDATA database.