Deans' stroke musings: Related and Opposite Motor Imagery Study for Stroke Rehabilitation

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.

Friday, February 22, 2013

Related and Opposite Motor Imagery Study for Stroke Rehabilitation

Your doctor can use this to create a stroke protocol. And ask what qualifies for motor imagery, visualization, action observation, lucid dreaming?
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29305-4_416

Abstract

Stroke patients have difficulties in the functional recovery. The searching of optimal stroke rehabilitation way is one of the most challenging subjects. Motor imagery therapy is helpful for the patients after stroke. This paper researches on which motor imagery mode is better for stroke rehabilitation by measuring their motor evoked potential (MEP) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Ten subjects are involved in this study. As a result, impossible movement has a bigger MEP than possible movement and there is a comparable effect between related motor imagery and opposite motor imagery. This work is significant for instructing the rehabilitation of stroke patients.