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.

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Effect of the Kickstart exoskeleton lower extremity walking system on improving lower extremity walking ability in subacute stroke patients: a randomized controlled trial

 So you incompetently missed this research from April 2015. Just proving you should be fired!
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    • Effect of the Kickstart exoskeleton lower extremity walking system on improving lower extremity walking ability in subacute stroke patients: a randomized controlled trial


    Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation volume 22, Article number: 155 (2025) Cite this article

    Abstract

    Background

    Walking dysfunction is a primary cause of a reduced ability to perform activities of daily living and decreased quality of life in stroke patients. The Kickstart® Walk assist system is portable and easy to don and remove. There is a lack of high-quality, randomized controlled trials to validate its effectiveness. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Kickstart® Walk Assist system in improving lower limb muscle strength and walking ability in stroke patients.

    Methods

    Forty-six patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to either a control group (n = 23) or a Kickstart group (n = 23). Both groups received conventional rehabilitation therapy. In addition, patients in the Kickstart group wore the Kickstart® Walk Assist system for 20 min, and patients in the control group received walking training for 20 min. The outcome measures included the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Lower Extremity Motor Function (FMA-LE), gait parameters, the 10MWT, the Borg Subjective Fatigue Scale (Borg), and surface electromyography (sEMG).

    Results

    Compared with the control group, the Kickstart group showed more significant improvements in FMA-LE at 4 and 8 weeks (P = 0.025, P = 0.028), 10-MWT (P = 0.256), Borg at 8 weeks (P = 0.035), sEMG (P < 0.05), and gait parameters (P > 0.05). No adverse events were observed during or after the intervention.

    Conclusion

    The Kickstart® Walk assist system can increase stroke patients’ lower limb strength and motor function and improve their walking ability.

    Trial registration

    This study was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (Unique Identifier ChiCTR2300067605) on January 13, 2023.

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