Deans' stroke musings: Neurofeedback as a form of cognitive rehabilitation therapy following stroke: A systematic review

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.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Neurofeedback as a form of cognitive rehabilitation therapy following stroke: A systematic review

Proving once again the incompetence out there in stroke/TBI that a review needs to be done at all. There should be a publicly available database of brain research and protocols updated each time something new comes in. These reviews and meta-analysis are fucking wastes of time getting in the way of actually solving all the problems in stroke.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J76642&phrase=no&rec=134526&article_source=Rehab&international=0&international_language=&international_location=
PLoS One , Volume 12(5) , Pgs. e0177290.

NARIC Accession Number: J76642. What's this?
ISSN: 1932-6203.
Author(s): Renton, Tian; Tibbles, Alana; Topolovec-Vranic, Jane.
Publication Year: 2017.
Number of Pages: 17.
Abstract: This systematic review examined the strength and quality of evidence to support the use of neurofeedback therapy (NFT) as a form of cognitive rehabilitation therapy to treat cognitive deficits following stroke. NFT targets the brain and cognitive functions through the use of electroencephalography (EEG), hence neurofeedback is sometimes referred to as EEG biofeedback. Searches for relevant literature were conducted using OVID (Medline, Health Star, Embase + Embase Classic) and PubMed databases. Additional searches were completed using the Cochrane Reviews library database, Google Scholar, the University of Toronto online library catalogue, ClinicalTrials.gov website and select journals. All searches were completed Feb/March 2015 and updated in June/July/Aug 2015. Eight studies were eligible for inclusion in this review. NFT protocols were highly specific and varied within each study. The majority of studies identified improvements in participant cognitive deficits following the initiation of therapy. Reviewers assessed study quality using the Downs and Black Checklist for Measuring Study Quality tool; limited study quality and strength of evidence restricted generalizability of conclusions regarding the use of this therapy to the greater stroke population. The findings suggest that progression in this field requires further inquiry to strengthen methodology quality and study design. Future investigations should aim to standardize NFT protocols in an effort to understand the dose-response relationship between NFT and improvements in functional outcome. Future investigations should also place a large emphasis on long-term participant follow-up.
Descriptor Terms: BIOFEEDBACK, BRAIN, COGNITIVE DISABILITIES, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, LITERATURE REVIEWS, OUTCOMES, REHABILITATION SERVICES, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, STROKE.

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Citation: Renton, Tian, Tibbles, Alana, Topolovec-Vranic, Jane. (2017). Neurofeedback as a form of cognitive rehabilitation therapy following stroke: A systematic review. PLoS One , 12(5), Pgs. e0177290. Retrieved 10/11/2017, from REHABDATA database.