Deans' stroke musings: Effectiveness and feasibility of eccentric and task-oriented strength training in individuals with stroke

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.

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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.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Effectiveness and feasibility of eccentric and task-oriented strength training in individuals with stroke

You'll have to ask your doctor to get the protocol for this since we have NO public database of stroke research and protocols.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J76606&phrase=no&rec=134491&article_source=Rehab&international=0&international_language=&international_location=
NeuroRehabilitation , Volume 40(4) , Pgs. 459-471.

NARIC Accession Number: J76606. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Folkerts, Mireille A.; Hijmans, Juha M.; Elsinghorst, Anne L.; Mulderij, Yvon; Murgia, Alessio; Dekker, Rienk.
Publication Year: 2017.
Number of Pages: 13.
Abstract: Study assessed the effect and feasibility of an intervention combining eccentric and task-oriented strength training in individuals with chronic stroke. Eleven participants were randomly assigned to a group first receiving four weeks of eccentric strength training and then four weeks of task-oriented strength training (EST-TOST) or vice versa (TOST-EST). Strength and upper-limb function were measured with a hand-held dynamometer and the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT), respectively. Feasibility was evaluated with the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI), the adherence rate, and the drop-out rate. Significant increases were found in ARAT score (mean difference = 7.3) and in shoulder and elbow strength (mean difference = 23.96 N and 27.41 N; respectively). Participants rated both EST and TOST with 81 percent on the IMI, the adherence rate was high, and there was one drop-out. The results show that a combination of eccentric and task-oriented strength training is an effective and feasible training method to increase function and strength in individuals with chronic stroke.
Descriptor Terms: COMPLIANCE, EXERCISE, FEASIBILITY STUDIES, LIMBS, MOBILITY, MUSCLES, STROKE, THERAPEUTIC TRAINING.

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Citation: Folkerts, Mireille A., Hijmans, Juha M., Elsinghorst, Anne L., Mulderij, Yvon, Murgia, Alessio, Dekker, Rienk. (2017). Effectiveness and feasibility of eccentric and task-oriented strength training in individuals with stroke. NeuroRehabilitation , 40(4), Pgs. 459-471. Retrieved 10/11/2017, from REHABDATA database.