Deans' stroke musings: Rapid Rehab Smart Insole Will Train Athletes and Assist Rehab Patients

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, June 29, 2013

Rapid Rehab Smart Insole Will Train Athletes and Assist Rehab Patients

This should become mandatory for all therapists working with patients walking. Accurately and objectively detecting gait problems might be useful. That would then require a whole new way of training physical therapists to focus on individual muscles to correct walking problems. Sorry Amy and Rebecca if I'm stepping on the PT world. But at least we would have objective data.
http://www.medgadget.com/2012/11/rapid-rehab-smart-insole-will-train-athletes-and-assist-rehab-patients.html
The device, called Rapid Rehab, consists of a custom gel insole embedded with force sensors, accelerometers, and gyroscopes to detect a person’s gait. Rapid Rehab also contains a wireless transmitter to send the data from the sensors to a custom smartphone app that tracks it and provides immediate visual, audio, or sensory feedback to the user. The current version specifically contains two force-sensitive resistors for tracking pressure when the foot is on the ground and an accelerometer and gyroscope for measuring foot movement and angle of position.
U of U smart insole Rapid Rehab Smart Insole Will Train Athletes and Assist Rehab Patients