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.

Saturday, September 16, 2017

'Video Games' could help stroke, traumatic brain injury survivors regain mobility

You will need to ask your doctor about the comparison with these other 60 posts on video games.
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/chronicle/2017/09/14/games-could-help-stroke-traumatic-brain-injury-survivors-regain-mobility/666532001/

Vince Macri, 3DPreMotorSkill Technologies, LLC Published 1:35 p.m. ET Sept. 14, 2017 | Updated 1:35 p.m. ET Sept. 14, 2017
This is a call to survivors of stroke and/or traumatic brain injury to consider demonstrating our newest ‘games’ innovations. We at 3DPreMotorSkill Technologies, LLC research and develop special video game-like technology for survivors.
We have completed two clinical trials with 47 survivors. No survivor was harmed in any way and we do not sell or charge anything for participating in our research.
Our ‘games’ benefit from a natural ability we all have: motor imagery. Motor imagery implies visualizing body movements. If you can ‘think’ of your impaired limb  making movements, our ‘games’ present virtual, controllable limbs you can use to act out your ‘thinking.’
Our first clinical trial was published in the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, JRRD Volume 51, Number 3, 2014 Pages 377–390: “Pilot study: Computer-based virtual anatomical interactivity for rehabilitation of individuals with chronic acquired brain injury.”
Our second clinical trial was reported at a conference in The Netherlands (poster sections below). Our full report is under peer review by the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Our mission is to help survivors to help themselves by ‘playing’ our self-movement-management ‘games’, called  Pre-Action Games & Exercises (PAGEs).
PAGEs are easy and fun to play. First, you see a realistic virtual limb on a computer screen. The virtual limb represents your impaired limb. You control it to make realistic physical movements. A standard computer mouse is used to point the cursor to all or part of the virtual limb and click and drag it to simulate unimpaired movements.
While controlling the virtual limb a signal is automatically sent to a wearable hand movement device (WHMD). The WHMD physically and mildly manipulates your impaired left hand. The result is mental and physical feedback to you.
A limited number of survivors (approximately five) of stroke and/or traumatic brain injury will be selected to play PAGEs games. All games are free to volunteers and will take about 30 minutes to complete, here in Tallahassee.

Candidates should:
  • be 21 years of age or older
  • have a moderate to mildly impaired (hemiparetic) left hand
  • have consulted your physician, therapist and family and be in sub-acute or less intense therapy
  • be responsible for their own consent and transportation to and from a location within Tallahassee
  • be willing to try-out for selection (approximately 15 minutes).
  • All we need for the selection try-out is you and an aide, if you like. Please email interest to vjm@vincemacri.us and be sure to add “WHMD” to the “Subject:” line, so that your response is read. Send any details you wish, such as left hand impairment and date of brain injury.
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