Deans' stroke musings: O 091 - A new method for computing gait deviation scores in hemiparesis

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.

Sunday, July 22, 2018

O 091 - A new method for computing gait deviation scores in hemiparesis

Absolutely worthless crap. NOTHING here is a protocol to get you recovered. Classification instead of intervention protocols.
https://www.gaitposture.com/article/S0966-6362(18)30883-X/abstract

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.06.126

Article Info

The Gait Deviation Index (GDI) [1] and the Gait Proﬁle Score [2] are two widely used scores for classification in clinical gait analysis. The principle of these scores is to compute the distance of time-normalized kinematic data to a standard, without considering phase and temporal information. Longer stance phases, greater on the unaffected limb, are common compensations in post-stroke hemiparetic gait [3], where paradoxically theses gait scores are often "better" for the affected limb. The objective of this work is to propose a method for computing these scores in order to make them invariant to temporal compensations, especially to stance phase extension.