Deans' stroke musings: Quantitative Evaluation of Biceps Brachii Muscle by Shear Wave Elastography in Stroke Patients

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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 4, 2022

Quantitative Evaluation of Biceps Brachii Muscle by Shear Wave Elastography in Stroke Patients

How is this going to get any stroke survivor better recovery? The whole point of stroke research is to get survivors recovered, this was useless for that.

Quantitative Evaluation of Biceps Brachii Muscle by Shear Wave Elastography in Stroke Patients

Authors Wei HQ, Gan M, Li GY, Ma SH, Liu JH

Received 9 February 2022

Accepted for publication 11 July 2022

Published 3 October 2022 Volume 2022:18 Pages 879—887

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/TCRM.S361664

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Dr De-Yun Wang

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Hong-Qin Wei,¹ Man Gan,¹ Guo-Yan Li,² Sui-Hong Ma,¹ Jian-Hua Liu¹

¹Department of Ultrasound, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, Guandong, People’s Republic of China; ²Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, Guandong, People’s Republic of China

Correspondence: Sui-Hong Ma; Jian-Hua Liu, Tel +86 13824420620 ; +86 13622888381, Fax +86 020 81332620, Email eymsh@scut.edu.cn; eyliujianhua@scut.edu.cn

Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate the differences in muscle size and shear wave speed (SWS) values of biceps brachii muscle (BBM) between stroke survivors and healthy controls.
Methods: This study comprised 61 stroke survivors and 24 healthy subjects, examined at Guangzhou First People’s Hospital within one year. Each participant underwent ultrasonic examinations for recording some specific measurement indicators, including muscle thickness, cross-sectional area (CSA), and shear wave speed (SWS) of BBM. The muscular tension of the paretic arm was scored using the modified Ashworth scale (MAS). These above-mentioned indexes were compared between stroke survivors and healthy controls. Also, the correlations among SWS and MAS scores were assessed.
Results: When the lifting arm angle was set for 45°, the CSA and muscle thickness of BBM were obviously decreased in the paretic arms of stroke subjects compared to the non-paretic arms as well as the arms of healthy controls. Moreover, the paretic arms had obviously higher SWS than the non-paretic arms and the healthy arms at 45° or 90°. When the angles of paretic arms were lifted at 90° and 45°, respectively, a positive correlation was established between MAS and SWS.
Conclusion: Ultrasonic examination assessing muscle thickness, CSA, and SWS of the BBM could be used as a means of assessment of the paretic arms of stroke survivors.