Deans' stroke musings: University of Oklahoma is Developing Individualized, Optimized Brain Injury Rehabilitation

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.

Saturday, March 4, 2023

University of Oklahoma is Developing Individualized, Optimized Brain Injury Rehabilitation

And a a lot of your problems are that you have no objective damage diagnosis. The NIHSS and Rankin scales are worthless for being able to match protocols to damage.

University of Oklahoma is Developing Individualized, Optimized Brain Injury Rehabilitation

NORMAN, Okla. , March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 500,000 people in the United States undergo rehabilitation following a stroke or brain injury every year. Movement impairments following a stroke are a major cause of adult disability in the United States, and routine treatments are not currently optimized for individual patient needs.

Yuan Yang, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Oklahoma, will use a National Science Foundation CAREER award to pioneer tailored rehabilitation strategies for brain injury patients, while connecting scientists, clinicians and the next generation of rehabilitation experts.

University of Oklahoma biomedical engineer Yuan Yang, Ph.D., has received a five-year "CAREER" award from the National Science Foundation to advance the scientific study of brain functional changes after a stroke and pioneer a tailored rehabilitation strategy that fits individual needs.

"The way a stroke victim's brain adapts to the injury varies from individual to individual," Yang said. "But routine clinical practice tends to treat everyone the same. When that happens, doctors cannot provide an optimal treatment for each patient."

Yang is an OU-Tulsa assistant professor in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, Gallogly College of Engineering. He will use multi-modal MRI scans in combination with an electrical neural activity scan to precisely assess the changes to motor control in an injured brain.

"Despite numerous efforts to develop new technologies for movement rehabilitation after a stroke, optimal recovery is still limited due to a lack of imaging guidance and real-time neurofeedback to tailor a rehabilitation strategy for each individual," Yang said. "Our program will be able to tell doctors which areas of the brain to stimulate in a non-invasive, non-painful manner to reduce a patient's recovery time and reduce the health care and nursing costs for long-term disability caused by stroke and other similar brain injuries."

The project will also support the development of a multidisciplinary research education ecosystem to connect engineering students, clinician trainees and STEM educators. Learn more at https://bit.ly/OUYangCAREER

SOURCE University of Oklahoma