Deans' stroke musings: Patterns of Visual Attention During Action Observation in Stroke Rehabilitation: A Feasibility and Exploratory Study

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.

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Patterns of Visual Attention During Action Observation in Stroke Rehabilitation: A Feasibility and Exploratory Study

Didn't your absolutely FUCKING INCOMPETENT DOCTOR include action observation protocols a long time ago? NO? So, your doctor is incompetent, your stroke president is incompetent, your board of directors IS ABSOLUTELY FUCKING INCOMPETENT? Is no one in your hospital competent other than the food staff and janitors?

action observation (140 posts to June 2014)

Since you didn't create ANY PROTOCOLS ON THIS YOU MISERABLY FAILED AT YOUR ONLY JOB!

Patterns of Visual Attention During Action Observation in Stroke Rehabilitation: A Feasibility and Exploratory Study

Layla Abdullatif PhD Veronica T. Rowe PhD OTR/L https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5943-5074 ewis A. Wheaton PhD https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0771-0294 View all authors and affiliations

OnlineFirst https://doi.org/10.1177/15459683251369508

Abstract

Background:Action observation (AO) has emerged as a potentially powerful therapeutic tool to improve stroke rehabilitation. What remains unclear are the underlying visual attention mechanisms that inform gaze strategies during AO. Further, it is unclear whether visual attention is sustained during AO or influenced by the severity of residual functional impairments following stroke.

Objective:This study seeks to explore eye gaze patterns and vigilance during a single session of AO in stroke survivors with varying levels of impairment.

Methods:Twenty stroke survivors with upper limb impairment (Fugl-Meyer Scores ranging 23-54) engaged in AO by watching an actor performing a disc placement task (observation phase), followed by the participant performing the task (execution phase) with their more affected, then less affected limb. Gaze patterns during the observation phase were evaluated for areas of most prominent gaze and compared between varying levels of severity of residual limb impairment. Gaze during AO prior to movement on the more affected side is focused on hand and object while AO prior to movement on the less affected side is focused on the overall action in the video. These patterns are prevalent for all levels of severity. This suggests that participants are developing gaze patterns in line with optimal approaches to encode action specifics, especially on the more affected side. This presents valuable understanding of perceptual patterns of AO that may be optimal for studies evaluating AO in stroke.

Results:Gaze during AO prior to movement on the more affected side is focused on hand and object while AO prior to movement on the less affected side is focused on the overall action in the video. These patterns are prevalent for all levels of severity.

This suggests that participants are developing gaze patterns in line with optimal approaches to encode action specifics, especially on the more affected side. This presents valuable understanding of perceptual patterns of AO that may be optimal for studies evaluating AO in stroke.

Conclusions:This suggests that participants are developing gaze patterns in line with optimal approaches to encode action specifics, especially on the more affected side. This presents valuable understanding of perceptual patterns of AO that may be optimal for studies evaluating AO in stroke.