Deans' stroke musings: Study: Socially Assistive Robot Helps Rehab For 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.

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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.

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Study: Socially Assistive Robot Helps Rehab For Stroke Patients - NoCamels

Didn't your hospital evaluate and get this socially assistive robot from August 2018? Or did they incompetently not even know about it? So you don't have a functioning stroke hospital, do you?

Robots as tools and partners in rehabilitation August 2018

The latest here:

Study: Socially Assistive Robot Helps Rehab For Stroke Patients

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have found that the use of a socially assistive robot (SAR) improves outcomes in the rehabilitation undergone by patients who have suffered a stroke.

A clinical trial, conducted at Adi Negev Rehabilitation Center outpatient clinic by Prof. Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Dr. Ronit Feingold-Polak and Oren Barzel, divided 26 participants into three groups.

One group worked with a SAR in addition to their usual care; one worked with a computer in addition to their usual care; and a third group received usual care with no further intervention.

The trial included three sessions per week for each participant, with each receiving a total of 15 sessions.

The researchers found that the participants who received SAR input showed significant improvements that were not evident in the participants in the other two groups.

In fact, BGU says, all of the members of the SAR group displayed improvement that reached or exceeded the gold standard for post-stroke upper-extremity activity.

“This study demonstrates both the feasibility and the clinical benefit of using a SAR for long-term interaction with post-stroke individuals as part of their rehabilitation program,” said Feingold Polak.

“Use of robots could vastly improve rehabilitation outcomes by encouraging people to continue their treatment in what they feel is a non-judgmental setting. Our study found that people enjoyed their interactions with the SAR, which seems to have helped improve their recovery over working with a computer or without any technological assistance,” said Levy-Tzedek.

The findings were recently published in the leading rehabilitation journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.