Deans' stroke musings: Delay in Hand Grasp Release in Individualswith Post-stroke 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.

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Delay in Hand Grasp Release in Individualswith Post-stroke Hemiparesis

Cherry picking again. Useless for the vast majority of stroke survivors. Nothing here will help any survivor recover. I have zero grasp release. I have to yank the left hand off with my right hand if I ever do grasp anything.

Delay in Hand Grasp Release in Individuals with Post-stroke Hemiparesis

Abstract

This study investigated the initiation and release of hand grasp in individuals with post-stroke hemiparesis. The study included 10 individuals with mild hemiparesis and 10 age- and sex-matched control subjects. Participants were instructed to grasp and release the bottle-like handle of a manipulandum with their affected hand when prompted by auditory cues. Data points related to the initiation and release of the grasp, the maximal grip force, and the time of maximal force were analyzed with the wrist at each of five angles: flexion at 30° and 60°, neutral at 0°, and extension at 30° and 60°. The post-stroke group required more time than the control group to release the grasp. No significant differences were observed between groups for other data points. The results may suggest that the delayed grasp release remains a residual deficit even in patients with well-recovered hand function after stroke.