Deans' stroke musings: Imagery Improves Upper Extremity Motor Function in Chronic Stroke Patients: A Pilot Study

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.

Monday, May 11, 2020

Imagery Improves Upper Extremity Motor Function in Chronic Stroke Patients: A Pilot Study

20 fucking years of incompetency in your stroke hospital for not implementing this cost free solution. All because your incompetent board of directors never insisted on an employee whose only job was to follow stroke research and implement protocols. You need to have everyone in management at your stroke hospital fired. They have no fucking clue on how to get stroke survivors 100% recovered and are doing nothing to get there.

Imagery Improves Upper Extremity Motor Function in Chronic Stroke Patients: A Pilot Study

Stephen J. Page

First Published July 1, 2000 Research Article

Abstract

After medical stabilization, stroke patients receive rehabilitation during a period that is considered subacute. The traditional view of neurologic rehabilitation is that it reduces impairment and minimizes disability. However, intensive rehabilitation is expensive and there are limited and diminishing financial resources to pay for therapy after stroke. Imagery improves motor learning and performance. Studies report increased blood flow, electromyographic activity during imagery, and subsequent changes in organization of the motor cortex in stroke patients following imagery. Since these events usually precede reacquisition of function, it has been suggested that imagery may be beneficial in reacquisition of function following stroke. To test this, 8 chronic stroke patients with right-arm hemiparesis were provided a four-week program combining occupational therapy and imagery (OT + I), while 8 controls received a program consisting only of OT. Scores on the upper extremity section of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Sensorimotor Recovery indicated that those receiving OT + I exhibited significantly more improved function than those receiving OT (F [1,14] −14.71; p < .05). Findings suggest that imagery may be an inexpensive, noninvasive compliment to OT for hemiparesis in stroke. The researchers encourage further investigation of OT + I in stroke.

Keywords imagery, functional motor recovery, stroke, Fugl-Meyer