Deans' stroke musings: Engineers design a device to stabilize tremor in daily tasks for people with Parkinson’s

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.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Engineers design a device to stabilize tremor in daily tasks for people with Parkinson’s

This should be reusable for intention tremors as Peter Levine wrote about here;
http://recoverfromstroke.blogspot.com/2013/04/intention-tremor-and-possible.html
If only we had a Great stroke association that would take these ideas and push them to success.
http://medcitynews.com/2013/06/engineers-design-a-tremor-stabilizing-device-for-people-with-parkinsons-and-essential-tremor/?
When the team tested the device in a clinical trial at the University of Michigan (which was later featured at American Academy of Neurology’s annual conference), they found more than 70 percent reduction in tremor with use of the device. That means it doesn’t entirely cancel the tremor but provides significant stabilization. It’s by no means meant to replace medical options for treating tremor, but could potentially be a tool for daily living with Parkinson’s or essential tremor.