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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.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Muscle torque of healthy individuals and individuals with spastic hemiparesis after passive static streching

Absolutely no idea what the point of this was and how this would help survivors recover. So ask your doctor to analyze this.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27151602
Tatsukawa DE Freitas ST1, DE Carvalho Abreu EM1, Dos Reis MC1, DE Souza Cunha B1, Souza Moreira Prianti T1, Pupio Silva Lima F1, Oliveira Lima M1.

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Abstract

Spasticity is one of the main causes of contracture, muscle weakness and subsequent functional incapacity. The passive static stretching can be included as having the purpose of increasing musculoskeletal flexibility, however, it also can influence the muscle torque. The objective is to verify the immediate effect of passive static stretching in the muscle strength of healthy and those who present spastic hemiparesis. There were assessed 20 subjects, 10 spastic hemiparetic (EG) and 10 healthy individuals (CG), including both sexes, aged between 22 and 78 years. The torque of extensor muscles of the knee was analyzed using isokinetic dynamometer. Results have shown that EG has less muscle torque compared to CG ( p < 0.01). In addition, EG presented a decrease in significance of muscle torque after stretching ( p < 0.05), however, it has not shown significant alteration in muscle torque of CG after performing the program that was prescribed. Immediately after the passive stretch, a significant torque decrease can be seen in hypertonic muscle; it is believed that this reduction may be associated with the physiological overlap between actin and myosin filaments and so preventing the muscle to develop a maximum contraction.
PMID:
27151602
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  1. Rebecca DuttonMay 16, 2016 at 9:54 AM

    A great rationale for therapists to stop being afraid to ask stroke survivors to use a spastic muscle because they fear it will overpower other muscles.

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