Deans' stroke musings: Researchers awarded $2.3 million R01 grant for chronic stroke research

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.

Sunday, October 9, 2022

Researchers awarded $2.3 million R01 grant for chronic stroke research

FYI.

CIMT is really only for high functioning individuals already.

I would have never consented to this, even 16 years later now. I would have been unable to eat,dress, go to the bathroom(1 or 2), open any door. Ask your doctor if exercising the good side to recover the bad side does as well as CIMT. Why doesn't your doctor know the answer to that very simple question?

Exercising the good side to recover the 'bad' side. December 2012

Brain to brawn: Training one leg strengthens both after stroke December 2007

The latest here:

Researchers awarded $2.3 million R01 grant for chronic stroke research

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences received an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their research with chronic stroke patients.

The four-year, $2.3 million grant, titled “Transferring Speed of Processing Gains to Everyday Cognitive Tasks after Stroke,” will fund a clinical trial. The trial will compare the effectiveness of a cognitive training program developed by the UAB Constraint Induced Therapy Research Group, with state-of-the-art methods for brain fitness training called Brain Fitness – Health Education Lifestyle Program.

Constraint-induced therapy is a therapeutic approach to rehabilitation after stroke, multiple sclerosis and traumatic brain injury. The therapy consists of a group of treatments that teach the brain to “rewire” itself following an injury to the brain, and is based on research by the Department of Psychology’s Edward Taub, Ph.D., university professor; Gitendra Uswatte, Ph.D., professor; and other collaborators at UAB.

“In our approach to treat stroke patients, we combine speed of cognitive processing training with important components of CI therapy,” Taub said. “We target daily activities such as cooking, household tasks and planning, and taking medications.”

The clinical trial led by Taub, Uswatte and Karlene Ball, Ph.D., university professor in the Department of Psychology, is currently accepting applications. Patients must be at least 40 years old, have had a stroke in the last six months or more, and have cognitive impairment to be eligible.

“We have data from two previous pilot studies indicating that CI therapy is effective in reducing cognitive impairment resulting from stroke, long-haul COVID-19 brain fog and cognitive impairment,” Taub said. “There is also data from other centers and from UAB that indicates brain fitness training is additionally effective in reducing cognitive impairment, so we are excited to see the results that come from this clinical trial.”

To learn more about the trial and how to apply, contact Staci McKay at 205-934-9768 or stacemc@uab.edu.