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.

Sunday, March 3, 2024

A Review of Rehabilitation Devices to Promote Upper Limb Function Following Stroke

I conclude you found nothing useful that gets survivors to 100% recovery. You use the word 'may' several times so I guess you found nothing that even remotely works! Just tell us in so many words that if you need upper limb recovery; you're screwed!

  A Review of Rehabilitation Devices to Promote Upper Limb Function Following Stroke

 Jacob Brackenridge
1
, Lynley V. Bradnam
2,3
, Sheila Lennon
2
, John J. Costi
1
 and David A. Hobbs
1,
*
 
1
Medical Device Research Institute, School of Computer Science, Engineer-ing and Mathematics, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Austra-lia;
2
 Discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, Flinders Uni-versity, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;
 
3
 Discipline of Physiotherapy, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstract:

 
 Background:
 
Stroke is a major contributor to the reduced ability to carry out activities of daily living (ADL) post cerebral infarct. There has been a major focus on understanding and improving rehabilitation interventions in order to target cortical neural plasticity to support recovery of upper limb function. Conventional therapies delivered by therapists have been combined with the application of mechanical and robotic devices to provide controlled and assisted movement of the paretic upper limb. The ability to provide greater levels of intensity and reproducible repetitive task practice through the application of intervention devices are key mechanisms to support rehabilitation efficacy.
 Results:
 
This review of literature published in the last decade identified 141 robotic or mechanical devices. These devices have been characterized and assessed by their individual characteristics to provide a review of current trends in rehabilitation device interventions. Correlation of factors identified to promote positive targeted neural plasticity has raised questions over the benefits of expensive robotic devices over simple mechanical ones.
Conclusion:
 
A mechanical device with appropriate functionality to support the promotion of neural plasticity after stroke may provide an effective solution for both patient recovery and to stimulate further research into the use of medical de-vices in stroke rehabilitation. These findings indicate that a focus on simple, cost effective and efficacious intervention solutions may improve rehabilitation outcomes.

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