Deans' stroke musings: Mapping and analyzing the application of digital health for stroke rehabilitation: scientometric analysis

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.

Friday, August 16, 2024

Mapping and analyzing the application of digital health for stroke rehabilitation: scientometric analysis

So you didn't put together EXACT PROTOCOLS to push to stroke hospitals. You really think stroke hospitals will use this information to get survivors recovered? Then you're living in la-la land.

Mapping and analyzing the application of digital health for stroke rehabilitation: scientometric analysis

Vahid Fatehi

Zahra Salahzadeh

Zeinab Mohammadzadeh

Introduction

A modern and accessible healthcare system requires digital innovation and connectivity. The term “Digital health” covers vide range technologies, such as mobile health and applications, electronic records, telehealth and telemedicine, wearable devices, robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

Methods

Scientometrics is the method that we have done in this study by Cite Space and VOSviewer software, and the result of searching the Web of Science database in plain text format to perform analysis and scientometrics and create outputs in the form of graphs and tables in the field of digital health has been used in stroke rehabilitation.

Result

A total of 2933 documents related to digital health technologies in stroke rehabilitation were identified by searching for the terms “stroke rehabilitation” or “stroke recovery” in the title and “digital health” across all fields. The strongest citations related to cerebrovascular disease spanned from 1994 to 2007, with randomised clinical trials occurring almost simultaneously and ended by 2012. Consequently, stroke rehabilitation by virtual reality technology has obtained the most citations and clinical trials and as an important part of digital health in the future research process.

Conclusion

This scientometric study offers insights into how digital health technology can assist stroke patients in self-managing their health and well-being, in addition to supporting integrated stroke rehabilitation. The analysis revealed that three themes were present: author contributors and collaboration networks, temporal evolution, the strongest citation explosions for digital health technologies in stroke rehabilitation research, and semantic analysis.

IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION

The new technology for helping stroke patients get better is a big help to many people with health problems.
Newer technologies are now more common, and more patients are using remote health care monitoring. We need to do more research to figure out if these digital health technologies work well over a long period of time.
This study connects digital technology and stroke rehab research. It looks at different research areas and trends, and gives a wider view than other similar studies. The findings show where more research should be done and help researchers work together in different areas to improve our knowledge of stroke rehabilitation.