Deans' stroke musings: Mirror-therapy as a way to start BCI robot-assisted rehabilitation: a single case longitudinal study of a patient with 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.

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.

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Mirror-therapy as a way to start BCI robot-assisted rehabilitation: a single case longitudinal study of a patient with hemiparesis

Now if we could get our stroke medical professionals to get a protocol written up on this. But that will never occur, you are going to have to figure this out on your own.

Mirror-therapy as a way to start BCI robot-assisted rehabilitation: a single case longitudinal study of a patient with hemiparesis

Roman Rosipal

(1,3)

, Natália Porubcová

(1)

, Barbora Cimrová

(2,3)

, Igor Farkaš

(2)

(1) Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (2) Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

(3) Pacific Development and Technology, LLC, CA, USA

http://www.um.sav.sk/projects/BCI-RAS/

The Seventh International BCI Meeting, May 21 – 25, 2018, Pacific Grove, CA, USA

Summary

To improve upper-limb neuro-rehabilitation in chronic stroke patients we apply new methods and tools of clinical training and machine learning for the design and development of an intelligent system allowing the users to go through the process of self-controlled training of impaired motor pathways. We combine the brain–computer interface (BCI) technology with a robotic arm system into a compact system that can be used as a robot-assisted neuro-rehabilitation tool:

(1)

We use mirror therapy (MT) not only to improve motor functions but also to identify subject’s “atoms,” i.e. spectral-spatial EEG patterns associated with imagined or real-hand movements, using parallel factor analysis.

(2)

We designed and tested a BCI-based robotic system using motor imagery in a patient with an impaired right upper limb. The novelty of this approach lies in the control protocol which uses spatial and spectral weights of the estimated sensorimotor atoms during the MT sessions.