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.

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Cathodal tDCS and robotic therapy for upper 1 limb rehabilitation in chronic stroke: a 2 randomized controlled trial

Will this be written up in a protocol and distributed to all 10 million yearly survivors? Not therapists or doctors, they don't follow research!

Didn't your competent? doctor create a protocol on this years ago? Or all these other tDCS interventions!
  • cathodal tDCS (23 posts to July 2013)
  • anodal tDCS (31 posts to July 2013)
  • Bicephalic tDCS (1 post to June 2022)
  • c-tDCS(4 posts to September 2019)
  • Dual-tDCS(1 post to January 2014)
  • HD C-tDCS(1 post to June 2023)
  • HD-tDCS(8 posts to January 2013)
  • remote tDCS(1 post to August 2022)
  • RS-tDCS (1 post to August 2022)

  • tDCS(90 posts to April 2011)

    • Is anyone ever going to put together a protocol on using tDCS and which type?   Otherwise all this fucking research and reviews are totally worthless.  This is why we need strong stroke leadership, to actually help stroke survivors. 

     Cathodal tDCS and robotic therapy for upper 1 limb rehabilitation in chronic stroke: a 2 randomized controlled trial


    Jin  ChenJin Chen1Jingang  DuJingang Du2Chunfang  WangChunfang Wang2*Hongli  YuHongli Yu3*
    1Tianjin Third Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
    2Tianjin Union Medical Centre, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
    3Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
    The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    This randomized controlled trial evaluated the effect of contralesional cathodal 15 transcranial direct current stimulation (ctDCS) combined with robotic therapy (RT) on 16 upper limb recovery in patients with chronic subcortical ischemic stroke. Thirty-one 17 participants were randomized to receive either active ctDCS or sham stimulation 18 during RT, administered five times per week for four weeks. Outcomes were assessed 19 using clinical rehabilitation scales and robotic evaluation of movement parameters at 20 baseline, immediately post-intervention, and at two-week follow-up. The active group 21 demonstrated significantly greater improvement in Upper Extremity Fugl-Meyer 22 Assessment, with a between-group difference of 4.61 (95% CI: 51.36 to 55.46, p = 23 0.023) post-intervention. Functional efficiency (mean difference: 1.82, 95% CI: 9.13 24 to 12.00) and movement speed (mean difference: 3.46, 95% CI: 51.60 to 56.74) also 25 favored the active group. These findings suggest that combining ctDCS with RT may 26 enhance the efficiency of specific upper limb motor tasks in patients with chronic 27 subcortical ischemic stroke, compared to RT alone.

    Keywords: Cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation, Robotic therapy, Stroke, Upper limb rehabilitation, primary motor cortex

    Received: 10 Jun 2025; Accepted: 23 Oct 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Chen, Du, Wang and Yu. 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:
    Chunfang Wang, chfwang@tju.edu.cn
    Hongli Yu, yhlzyn@hebut.edu.cn




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