Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Upper extremity proprioception in healthy aging and stroke populations, and the effects of 2 therapist- and robot-based rehabilitation therapies on proprioceptive function

Have your doctor and therapists create a stroke protocol from this. I still do not have very good proprioception on my left side. Pages 8-25 cover the stroke information, someplace in there your therapist can find enough information to writeup a stroke protocol. You should not have to do your therapists work, but you may have to if you don't get anything on this in the next 10 years.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00015/pdf&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm2FRxCZ_P1-AlP1nE0DbzjdczEyuw&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt
Corresponding address:
16 Charmayne Mary Lee Hughes
17 Robotics Research Centre
18 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
19 Nanyang Technological University
20 50 Nanyang Ave
21 Singapore 639798
22 Email: c.hughes@ntu.edu.sg
23 Ph: + 65 679 05640
Abstract
The world’s population is aging, with the number of people ages 65 or older expected to surpass
3 1.5 billion people, or 16% of the global total. As people age, there are notable declines in
4 proprioception due to changes in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Moreover, the risk
5 of stroke increases with age, with approximately two-thirds of stroke-related hospitalizations
6 occurring in people over the age of 65. In this literature review we first summarize behavioral
7 studies investigating proprioceptive deficits in normally aging older adults and stroke patients,
8 and discuss the differences in proprioceptive function between these populations. We then
9 provide a state of the art review the literature regarding therapist- and robot-based rehabilitation
10 of the upper extremity proprioceptive dysfunction in stroke populations and discuss avenues of
11 future research.

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