Deans' stroke musings: EFFICACY OF BILATERAL ARM TRAINING ON UPPER LIMB MOTOR FUNCTION IN STROKE PATIENTS

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.

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

EFFICACY OF BILATERAL ARM TRAINING ON UPPER LIMB MOTOR FUNCTION IN STROKE PATIENTS

Where is the EXACT PROTOCOL located so survivors can find it and bring it to their stroke medical 'professionals' attention? With no location, you did fucking useless research!

Here is all the bilateral arm training posts to see if anything useful was ever done with it that survivors can find and benefit from. Or you can just ask your competent? doctor for the EXACT PROTOCOL on this!

bilateral arm training (15 posts to December 2020)

The latest here:

EFFICACY OF BILATERAL ARM TRAINING ON UPPER LIMB MOTOR FUNCTION IN STROKE PATIENTS

Dr. Senthil Kumar*, Dr. Franklin Shaju M.K**, Dr. Vijaya Senthil Kumar*** & Dr. A. Velmurugan**** *Research Scholar, Himalayan University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India. **Professor, RVS College of Physiotherapy, Tamil Nadu, India. ***Research Scholar, Himalayan University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India. ****Professor, St. John’s College of Nursing, Kattappana, Kerala, India. DOI: http://doi.org/10.47211/tg.2020.v07i04.003

ABSTRACT

Background of the study:

Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability. Stroke patients experience a significant change in motor function. Perceived loss of hand function has been reported as a major problem in approximately 65% of patients with stroke. Motor dysfunction of upper extremity which indeed affects functional performance of daily life is an outcome of stroke. So restriction of motor function is highly relevant for stroke patients to make them functionally independent. Stroke rehabilitation needs to concentrate on retraining techniques which are simple, affordable and effective.

Objectives of the study:

The objective of the study is to find the effects of bilateral arm training in the management of upper limb motor function in stroke patients.

Method:

An experimental Research design, thirty clinically diagnosed middle cerebral artery (MCA) ischemic stroke patients were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. They were randomly allocated into two groups, A and B consisting of 15 subjects each. Group-A received conventional physical therapy and group-B received bilateral arm training techniques along with conventional physical therapy. The intervention lasted for fifteen days and one hour per day. Upper limb motor function was measured before and after fifteen days of intervention by motor assessment scale.

Conclusion:

Both the groups receiving conventional physical therapy and bilateral arm training, among middle cerebral artery stroke patients, significantly experienced improvement in upper limb motor functions. While comparing the two groups of subjects, the group receiving bilateral arm training showed more effective improvement in upper limb motor function than the one receiving only conventional physical therapy.