Walking speed in stroke patients major determinant of recovery

We don't need another stupid recovery prediction. We need protocols that will increase our walking speed to what is necessary to rejoin the normal world. This absolute stupidity is all because we have NO STROKE LEADERSHIP ENFORCING RESEARCH THAT FOLLOWS THE DEFINED STROKE STRATEGY THAT GETS ALL SURVIVORS TO 100% RECOVERY.  Until this is understood and followed by our stroke medical professionals we will never get to 100% recovery.  My suggestion would be to fire everyone in stroke and start over.

Walking speed in stroke patients major determinant of recovery

By Helen Becker on November 9, 2019

A study done by Manchester Metropolitan University has discovered that the speed of a patient’s walk recovering from heart stroke is the best way to gauge if that person can get back to work. Researchers investigating the phenomenon were working with physiotherapists and patients in Wales. The project involves moving rehabilitation centers outdoors like Brecon Beacons to adopt new rehabilitation that are being developed to assist young patients of heart strokes.

Though the average age for stroke in UK is 72 for men and 78 for women but there has been a rise of 40 % stroke cases worldwide among people under 65 years within last decade say researchers. The study looked at 46 patients across Wales region that had a stroke before 65 years and observed that only 3 % of them were able to return to regular work. It also discovered that walking speed of a young adult was a key indicator of the individual’s ability to return back to work.

Researchers calculated that walking speed threshold of 0.93m/s or 3 feet per second was the ideal benchmark for returning back to work. They believe that this is the goal that therapists should set for rehabilitation of stroke patients. At Powys based Talybont-on-Usk, young stroke patients were taken on walks near Brecon Canal and Monmouthshire by research team. They wanted to find out if providing fresh air and setting walking goals can help stroke patients to start leading active lives again in the outdoors.

According to Manchester University’s Hanna Jarvis, stroke rehabilitation is usually focused on older people but young patients have specific needs and they want to live life as completely as possible. She said that most of her institute’s patients want to walk outside in the open air to gain confidence of walking in challenging environment. Dr. Jarvis stated that key aim for all young adults recovering from stroke is to return back to work and their research will help to understand how to help them return back to work.