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.

What this blog is for:

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.

Monday, March 27, 2023

Body Cell Mass from Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Patients with Stroke Undergoing Rehabilitation

Well you described something but didn't attach it to how this is going to drive recovery. Useless.

Body Cell Mass from Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Patients with Stroke Undergoing Rehabilitation 

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Department of Science and Technology for Humans and the Environment, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, Italy
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IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, 50143 Florence, Italy
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Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(6), 3965; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13063965
Received: 9 February 2023 / Revised: 16 March 2023 / Accepted: 17 March 2023 / Published: 21 March 2023

Abstract

The majority of BIA parameters have been investigated in relation to post-stroke recovery, except for body cell mass (BCM), which measures the body’s cellular components involved in oxygen consumption and nutritional status. The aim of this longitudinal prospective study was to investigate in a cohort of subacute post-stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation the body composition parameters from BIA and the relationship between these parameters, in particular BCM, with both the performance in activity of daily living (ADL), measured by Barthel’s Index at admission (BI T0), and the recovery in ADL, measured by change in BI from baseline (ΔBI). We analyzed 66 patients, before and after a six-week rehabilitation program and we found that patients’ body composition after the rehabilitation protocol did not change. All lean mass and muscle quality parameters measured by BIA are positively correlated with BI T0. Moreover, patients with better recovery had higher values of BCM, such as other lean mass parameters and their related height-adjusted indices. Furthermore, BCM was independently associated both with ADL performance at admission, and most notably with recovery. These results suggest that assessing BCM at admission not only would improve the valuation of the nutritional status in post-stroke patients but would also potentially predict their recovery.

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