Improving rehabilitation after stroke - DR PENELOPE MCNULTY

Sorry doctor you are completely wrong. You are stuck in current thinking rather than what is possible with a little bit of research.  The easiest way to improve rehabilitation is by stopping the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes. You are going down the route of improving the rehabilitation silo which currently only has a success rate of 10% full recovery. A great stroke association leader would be traveling the world making sure doctors don't make stupid statements like these. They would be promoting a defined strategy that would solve all the problems in stroke.

Improving rehabilitation after stroke - DR PENELOPE MCNULTY

Every year more than 60,000 Australians suffer a stroke and this number will only increase with the aging population the growing epidemics of obesity, physical inactivity and diabetes.

Because there is no cure for stroke, the only method to improve functional movement is through rehabilitation. But we need to understand how rehabilitation works, and which patients will benefit most.

We are studying patients who have weakness on one side of their body 3-12 months after a single stroke. We are comparing a new and promising strategy, Wii therapy, against the current best practice – constraint induced movement therapy in a randomised control trial.

Both therapies have been shown to improve upper limb functional movement after an intense 2 week program of rehabilitation.