Deans' stroke musings: Cerebral Plasticity as the Basis for Upper Limb Recovery following Brain Damage

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.

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Cerebral Plasticity as the Basis for Upper Limb Recovery following Brain Damage

Well shit, we've known about neuroplasticity for years. We just need an EXACT REPEATABLE PROTOCOL to make it work for us. When the fuck will you get there? Just saying the word does nothing for getting us 100% recovered

Cerebral Plasticity as the Basis for Upper Limb Recovery following Brain Damage

Aija MarieLadda^a Klaus MartinStephan^b

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.01.027 Get rights and content

Highlights

•: Neural basis for training and plasticity in healthy volunteers.
•: Non-invasive methods to observe processes of neural plasticity.
•: Postlesional plasticity and training in animals and in humans.
•: Biomarkers for prediction of motor outcome and therapy planning.

None of these highlights are of any use

Abstract

Neural plasticity is the basis for an adaptation process of functional and structural characteristics of the nervous system in response to a changing environment. However, changes during training in healthy volunteers are only partially comparable to that observed in patients with circumscribed lesions. Pathologies can even be associated with maladaptive plasticity. We first introduce basic processes underlying brain plasticity with respect to the sensorimotor system and outline their limitations. A number of methods showing potential in the evaluation of these processes are compared before literature on postlesional plasticity is reviewed. Approaches in monitoring plasticity processes of the healthy sensorimotor system are partially applicable after brain damage and for the documentation of recovery processes. Some of these techniques can further be used for outcome prediction or therapy selection and optimization. Extreme examples from athletes or professional musicians illustrate the amount of plastic changes the human brain can achieve. Profound understanding of neural plasticity in health and disease will help to modify and individually optimize therapy strategies in neurorehabilitation.