Individualised treatment the future for stroke patients

Too long, didn't listen.  This falls into the same trap as those stating, 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different'.  Anybody that says this hasn't understood stroke at all. There are 10 million stroke survivors a year, the basics of their damage will be quite similar so recovery can be similar.

First we need objective damage diagnosis. None of this subjective crapola of  these:

•     The Fugl-Meyer upper extremity scale has no objective distinction for changes in ability and thus would be useless as a measurement tool.

• The Modified Ashworth Scale is way too subjective to be of any use in knowing if improvements are occurring.   

• FIM is pretty much useless since it is subjective. 

• Rankin scale is worthless, not objective except for 6 - death.

• You still don't know that the NIHSS subjective stroke scale is worthless?

 

 

 

Second; Stroke rehab protocols with the highest efficacy are then mapped to the damage diagnosis and successfully implemented to recovery. 

 

Individualised treatment the future for stroke patients

When your family member has a stroke, you get thrown headfirst into a health system that can feel big, scary and confusing.
So how can we make stroke recovery more patient focused? How can we listen to the people living through this hard time to create a recovery program that works best for them?
Gillian Mason, clinical trials manager, physiotherapist and researcher with the Hunter Medical Research Institute, is asking this question in her work.

Duration: 12min 29sec

Broadcast: Tue 25 Jun 2019, 9:00am