Deans' stroke musings: Executive dysfunction and balance function post-stroke: A cross-sectional study

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

Executive dysfunction and balance function post-stroke: A cross-sectional study

With executive dysfunction you wouldn't be able to follow therapist instructions. So what is the protocol to address that dysfunction? Don't just describe the problem, offer a solution.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J76647&phrase=no&rec=134533&article_source=Rehab&international=0&international_language=&international_location=
Physiotherapy , Volume 102(1) , Pgs. 64-70.

NARIC Accession Number: J76647. What's this?
ISSN: 0031-9406.
Author(s): Hayes, Sara; Donnellan, Claire; Stokes, Emma.
Publication Year: 2016.
Number of Pages: 7.
Abstract: Study investigated the prevalence of executive dysfunction (ED), demographic, and clinical differences between participants with ED and without ED and, independent association between executive function (EF) and balance post-stroke. One hundred participants were evaluated within 6 months of experiencing a first-ever stroke. Participant age ranged from 31 to 98 years, time since stroke ranged from 4 to 180 days, and the participants reported formal education ranging from 7 to 21 years. The primary outcome measure was balance function; secondary outcomes included EF, stroke severity, depression and global cognition. Descriptive statistics were used to report the prevalence of ED post-stroke. Comparisons of demographic and clinical characteristics were made between participants with ED and without ED using independent t-tests. Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis determined the association between EF and balance post-stroke. Results indicated that ED was present in 47 percent of the study participants the first six months post-stroke. Participants with ED had more severe strokes, poorer global cognition, and poorer balance than participants without ED. Age, years of education, stroke severity, time since stroke, and EF were independently associated with balance post-stroke. The total variance in balance explained by the model was 72 percent. Findings suggest ED is independently associated with balance post-stroke. Physiotherapists should consider this when developing rehabilitation strategies to improve balance post-stroke.(This last sentence is a fucking joke, abandoning all sense of responsibility for anything researched here.)
Descriptor Terms: CLIENT CHARACTERISTICS, COGNITIVE DISABILITIES, DEMOGRAPHICS, EQUILIBRIUM, PHYSICAL THERAPY, POSTURE, PREVALENCE, STROKE.

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Citation: Hayes, Sara, Donnellan, Claire, Stokes, Emma. (2016). Executive dysfunction and balance function post-stroke: A cross-sectional study. Physiotherapy , 102(1), Pgs. 64-70. Retrieved 10/11/2017, from REHABDATA database.