Saturday, July 7, 2012

Compelled BodyWeight Shift Technique to Facilitate Rehabilitation of Individuals with Acute Stroke

I wonder why this research was even done. It sounds like the same as this one in 2000. 
Compelled weightbearing in persons with hemiparesis following stroke: the effect of a lift insert and goal-directed balance exercise

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10847573

 New one here:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://downloads.isrn.com/journals/rehabilitation/2012/328018.pdf&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm25IQEELabc_fj_AEorblFrblGs-w&oi=scholaralrt

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4 comments:

  1. Rebecca DuttonJuly 7, 2012 at 9:33 AM

    Perhaps subjects tolerated being pushed onto a hemiplegic leg by a device because it is less personal than being pushed there by a person. I thought you would be enthusiastic about this finding since you dislike compensation (e.g. the sound leg doing most of the work). I liked this study because it showed that a lift insert, which is so much cheaper than a $100,000 robotic device, produced a statistically significant improvement.

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    1. oc1deanJuly 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM

      Rebecca, I love the idea of this. Its just that the newest research was totally unnecessary. From 2000 this should have already been disseminated to all PT schools and added to CME courses and being in widespread use in clinical settings.

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  2. LindaJuly 7, 2012 at 5:47 PM

    I did this all on my own! I felt like I was walking around with my left leg on curb and the right in a road so I thought I might feel safer it the right was higher so I inserted 2 nested shoe liners and liked it. I showed my physio the next week. He said I cd have an orthopedic but it Dr Schoal was working for me go with it.

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  3. SambitSeptember 26, 2012 at 4:07 PM

    The one in 2000 was on chronic..there was no existing literature on acute stroke..so this was done..

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