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.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Postural Stability of Elderly People With Cognitive Impairments

Our doctors and stroke researchers should be able to determine why survivors fall down, bad decisions, foot drop, walking instability, etc. And then apply a stroke protocol to correct that problem.
http://aja.sagepub.com/content/31/3/241?etoc
  1. Joanna Szczepańska-Gieracha, PhD, DSc1
  2. Błażej Cieślik, MSc1
  3. Dagmara Chamela-Bilińska, PhD1⇑
  4. Michał Kuczyński, PhD, DSc1,2
  1. 1Department of Physiotherapy, University School of Physical Education, Wroclaw, Poland
  2. 2Department of Biomechanic, University of Technology, Opole, Poland
  1. Dagmara Chamela-Bilińska, PhD, Department of Physiotherapy, University School of Physical Education, Paderewskiego Street 35, 51-612 Wrocław, Poland. Email: dagmara.chamela-bilinska@awf.wroc.pl

Abstract

Introduction: Falls are one of the major problems among the elderly population. It has been established that people with dementia fall down more often. It is believed that this is a consequence of risky decision making by people with dementia resulting from cognitive deterioration. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between cognitive status and postural stability while standing.
Methods: A total of 47 people, aged 71.6 years on average (±7.2), were divided based on results of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) into a dementia group (MMSE ≤ 23) and a control group (MMSE > 23). Postural stability was tested using a force plate (with eyes open, with eyes closed, and with visual biofeedback). The parameters of movement of the center of pressure were analyzed.
Results: Both in test with eyes open and eyes closed, significant difference was shown between the dementia group and the control groups. In visual feedback test, the dementia group showed 32% poorer performance than the controls.
Conclusion: The falls experienced in dementia group may be caused by a disturbed balance control process of the central nervous system.
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