Deans' stroke musings: Upper limbs cranking for post-stroke rehabilitation: a pilot study on healthy subjects

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.

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Upper limbs cranking for post-stroke rehabilitation: a pilot study on healthy subjects

It would make much more sense to get arm crank wheelchairs. That would be functional and you would recover the arms like you do the legs because of forced use.

lever wheelchair (7 posts to May 2016)
rowing wheelchair (5 posts to May 2016)

Upper limbs cranking for post-stroke rehabilitation: a pilot study on healthy subjects

Abstract:

Since one of the major consequences of stroke is hemiparesis, the rehabilitation of upper limbs is necessary to improve the quality of life. Arm cranking gesture represents an alternative rehabilitation tool, especially if accompanied by a biofeedback involving and motivating patients. The aim of this pilot study was twofold: (1) to evaluate the effect of a visual and virtual biofeedback on arm cranking gesture and (2) to estimate the duration of pull and push phases of the crank cycle. Nine healthy and young subjects were involved in the test and were asked to perform the arm cranking gesture in different conditions. A stereophotogrammetric system was adopted to create a virtual, visual and real time biofeedback of cadence, to measure the real cadence of participants and to estimate push and pull phases durations. Results showed that the biofeedback helped subjects to follow an externally imposed cadence. Furthermore, the pull phase resulted to be slightly longer than the push one, although the angular amplitude of the two phases suggested they were the same.

Published in: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)

Date of Conference: 1 June-1 July 2020

Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 10 July 2020

ISBN Information:

DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA49120.2020.9137282

Conference Location: Bari, Italy, Italy