Deans' stroke musings: Effectiveness of mirror therapy in stroke rehabilitation

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, February 27, 2020

Effectiveness of mirror therapy in stroke rehabilitation

We wouldn't need this waste of research if we had a complete database of stroke protocols and stroke research updated every time something new came in. But NO, our fucking failures of stroke associations can't even manage that simple task.

Effectiveness of mirror therapy in stroke rehabilitation

Arch Neurocien 2019; 24 (4)

Language: Español
References: 22
Page: 48-58
PDF: 394.79 Kb.

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ABSTRACT

Background: Stroke is the leading cause of neurological disability worldwide. It affects the motor or cognitive level and needs to be treated as early as possible. One of the therapies most commonly used to restore the sequelae of stroke is mirror therapy.
Objective: To find out the effectiveness of mirror therapy in stroke rehabilitation.
Method: Three databases were chosen for the search: Pubmed, Medline and Cinahl. The search equation contained three terms ("Stroke", "Treatment outcome" and "Mirror therapy") and articles were included in English. Once the reviews were excluded, the articles without access and those that do not fit the objective, we analyzed a total of 13 articles.
Results: 11 of the studies are RCTs and the remaining two are pilot studies. Most of the patients were men over 60 years of age who suffered an ischaemic stroke more than 3 weeks ago.
Discussion: We analysed the duration of the treatment, what it consisted of and its effects on the sequelae of the stroke that affect the functional capacities of the subjects who have suffered them.
Conclusion: motor function is one of the characteristics that best responds to experimental treatment although other less evaluated variables such as balance and negligence also obtained positive results.