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.

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Combination of Robot-Assisted Glove and Mirror Therapy Improves Upper Limb Motor Function in Subacute Stroke Patients: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

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Combination of Robot-Assisted Glove and Mirror Therapy Improves Upper Limb Motor Function in Subacute Stroke Patients: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

Jin QianJin Qian1Chong LiangChong Liang1Run LiuRun Liu1Jingyi YuJingyi Yu1Tangzhu YangTangzhu Yang1,2*Dingqun BaiDingqun Bai3*
  • 1Wuchang Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
  • 2Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Key Laboratory of Physical Medicine and Precision Rehabilitation of Chongqing Municipal Health Commission, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
  • 3Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University., Chongqing, China

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    Objective: This pilot study aimed to investigate the effects of combining mirror therapy with robot-assisted glove therapy (RMT) on upper limb functional recovery in patients with post-stroke hemiplegia.Methods: Fifty-two patients with subacute stroke were randomly assigned to three groups mirror therapy (MT) group, robot-assisted therapy (RT) group and or RMT group-using a computer-generated randomization table. Patients in all three groups received routine rehabilitation training, MT group received mirror therapy on the basis of this, RT group received rehabilitation robot glove training on the basis of conventional rehabilitation treatment, and the RMT group received rehabilitation robot glove training and mirror therapy at the same time. All interventions lasted for 4 weeks, 5 times a week. Before treatment, 4 weeks after treatment, Fugl-Meyer Assessment-Upper Extremity (FMA-UE), Brunnstrom Hemiplegic Rating Scale, Functional test for the Hemiplegic Upper Extremity-HongKong(FTHUE-HK), Functional Independence Measure (FIM) were used to evaluate the upper limb function and activities of daily living (ADL) of patients.Results: Compared with baseline, FMA-UE, Brunnstrom upper limb and hand grade and FIM score were observed across all three groups post-intervention(P < 0.05). Compared with MT group, FMA-UE (37.61±11.09), Brunnstrom upper limb (4.06±0.87) and hand grades (4.67±1.24) and FIM scores (94.17±9.49) in RMT group were superior after treatment (P < 0.05), and the differences were statistically significant. Conclusion: Mirror therapy combined with rehabilitation robot glove may be an effective treatment method to improve the upper limb function, promote the recovery of motor function and improve the ability of daily living of patients with hemiplegia in subacute stroke.

    Keywords: mirror therapy, Stroke, Hemiplegia, Upper limb motor function, robot-assisted therapy

    Received: 30 Mar 2025; Accepted: 29 May 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Qian, Liang, Liu, Yu, Yang and Bai. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Tangzhu Yang, Wuchang Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
    Dingqun Bai, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University., Chongqing, China

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