Saturday, January 2, 2016

Motivating Stroke Rehabilitation Through Music: A Feasibility Study Using Digital Musical Instruments In The Home

Will this motivate your doctor and hospital to create a music stroke protocol? The evidence has been out there for years. Are they that incompetent that no research is ever applied in a clinical setting? Call the hospital president on that question, we need to get rid of the dead wood holding back stroke rehab innovation.

Pedro Kirk1,2, Michael Grierson1, Rebeka Bodak2,3, Lauren Stewart2 Contact: mu101pk@gold.ac.uk 1Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom 2Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom 3Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark  

 Aim and Hypothesis  The aim of the study was to see if active seated music making could improve upper limb function in the home environment and motivate participants to self-manage their rehabilitation.  
Hypothesis: H1: Entraining to music will motivate stroke survivors to perform exercise on their own in the home environment.  

H2: Active seated reaching activities entraining to the tempo of self-selected backing tracks will show an improvement in the stroke survivor’s physical ability and psychosocial wellbeing.     Background 
o  Every year there are a reported 15 million strokes worldwide with 5 million survivors left with severe disability (World Heart Federation, 2015).  o  Stroke survivors often receive little formal support to help with physical and psychosocial problems post hospitalization (Joice, 2012). o  Recent Research has found that music supported therapy (MST) is effective for stroke rehabilitation (Altenmüller et al., 2009; Amengual et al., 2013; Grau-Sánchez et al., 2013; Schneider et al., 2007) o  There is a lack of research studies evaluating music as a motivational aid for self-management in the home environment.

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