Deans' stroke musings: Understanding Upper Limb Contracture Post-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.

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, May 13, 2023

Understanding Upper Limb Contracture Post-Stroke – Part 2

Useless, Survivors would like to recover, not be told their stroke medical 'professionals' know jackshit about recovery.

Understanding Upper Limb Contracture Post-Stroke – Part 2

Author: The StrokeEd Collaboration

Duration: 38 mins

Details: Presented by Karl Schurr, physiotherapist and member of the StrokeEd collaboration, Australia

This lecture is the second in a 2-part series about the relationship between upper limb spasticity and contracture, prevalence and predictors of contracture, interventions that have been evaluated using RCTs to prevent and reverse upper limb contracture including stretching, splinting and casting (disappointing key message: no benefit from any of these interventions). Karl concludes with reflections on what to do clinically to prevent or reverse contractures.

The lecture was recorded during an online workshop in 2021.