Deans' stroke musings: Using Both Hands:Tangibles for Stroke Rehabilitation in the Home

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, April 4, 2019

Using Both Hands:Tangibles for Stroke Rehabilitation in the Home

The real reason survivors rarely exercise enough is because therapists don't have EXACT rehab protocols specifying what to do and repetitions needed. If the protocol said, 'Do 1,301,000 repetitions and you will get this result', then the survivor will do that. Stop blaming the survivor for your failure to create protocols.

Using Both Hands:Tangibles for Stroke Rehabilitation in the Home

ABSTRACT

Stroke is one of the most common causes of long-term dis-ability in the world, significantly reducing quality of life through impairing motor functions and cognitive abilities.Whilst rehabilitation exercises can help in the recovery of motor function impairments, stroke survivors rarely exercise enough, leading to far from optimal recovery. In this paper, we investigate how upper limb stroke rehabilitation can be supported using interactive tangible bimanual de-vices in the home. We customise the rehabilitation activities based on individual rehabilitation requirements and motivation of stroke survivors. Through evaluation with five stroke survivors, we uncovered insight into how tangible stroke re-habilitation systems for the home should be designed. These revealed the special importance of tailorable form factors as well as supporting self-awareness and grip exercises in order to increase the independence of stroke survivors to carry out activities of daily living.CCS CONCEPTS•Human-centered computing→Field studies;Empir-ical studies in HCI;•Applied computing→Consumerhealth.
KEYWORDS
stroke, rehabilitation, bimanual, bilateral, tangible interac-tion, homeACM Reference Format:Mikko Kytö, Laura Maye, and David McGookin. 2019. Using BothHands: Tangibles for Stroke Rehabilitation in the Home. InCHIConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings(CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK.ACM, New York,NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300612

14 total pages if you want to read this.