Time to exercise!: an aide-memoire stroke app for post-stroke arm rehabilitation

Rehabbing from stroke wouldn't be so damned difficult if you would solve the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes in the first week such that preventing that damage there would be much less dead and damaged neurons. But no, you research something to make the survivors work harder rather than have the doctors actually do something. And you don't know exactly what makes neuroplastiity repeatable so your instructions to exercise more often have no basis in concrete research. In other words, you have no fucking clue what you are doing.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2935338

Authors: Nicholas Micallef Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Lynne Baillie Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Stephen Uzor Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Published in: · Proceeding MobileHCI '16 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Pages 112-123 ACM New York, NY, USA ©2016 table of contents ISBN: 978-1-4503-4408-1 doi>10.1145/2935334.2935338 2016 Article   Bibliometrics

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A majority of Stroke survivors have an arm impairment (up to 80%), which persists over the long term (>12 months). Physiotherapy experts believe that a rehabilitation Aide-Memoire could help these patients [25]. Hence, we designed, with the input of physiotherapists, Stroke experts and former Stroke patients, the Aide-Memoire Stroke (AIMS) App to help them remember to exercise more frequently. We evaluated its use in a controlled field evaluation on a smartphone, tablet and smartwatch. Since one of the main features of the app is to remind Stroke survivors to exercise we also investigated reminder modalities (i.e., visual, vibrate, audio, speech). One key finding is that Stroke survivors opted for a combination of modalities to remind them to conduct their exercises. Also, Stroke survivors seem to prefer smartphones compared to other mobile devices due to their ease of use, usability, familiarity and being easier to handle with one arm.