Deans' stroke musings: Research aims to improve access to key therapy after stroke; Australia

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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 11, 2021

Research aims to improve access to key therapy after stroke; Australia

THIS is where YOU need to get involved. 'Access' is not only what you want, you want recovery results. Allowing just this means you are still letting your stroke medical teams practice failure by only getting to a 10% full recovery rate.

Research aims to improve access to key therapy after stroke;Australia

New research exploring the delivery of rehabilitation from stroke via telehealth has been awarded a $50,000 grant in the 2021 Stroke Foundation Research Grants round.

The project, ReCITE (Remote Constraint Induced Therapy of the upper Extremity): An implementation study, will investigate telehealth as an alternative to face to face treatment for Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT). The therapy is to treat arm weakness after stroke.

Lauren Christie, from the Allied Health Research Unit and Nursing Research Institute (NRI), St Vincent’s Health Network, Sydney and Australian Catholic University was among four early career researchers to receive a Seed Grant as part of the Stroke Foundation research program.

Ms Christie said lessons from this research study had the potential to benefit thousands of Australians impacted by stroke, particularly survivors of stroke where mobility may be an issue or those living in regional and rural areas of Australia where access to therapists may be limited.

“Currently around one third of people with stroke are eligible for CIMT, but less than 12 percent receive it,” Ms Christie said.

“There is much scope to boost this number via telehealth, delivering this therapy to people who are unable to attend the necessary sessions every day for two to three weeks in person.”

Stroke Foundation Research Advisory Committee Chair Professor Amanda Thrift said the pandemic saw the use of telehealth in stroke rapidly expanded. It was now vital research was conducted to ensure the benefits of healthcare delivery via this medium were maximised.

“Stroke Foundation’s Research Grant round will kick start this work, providing our researchers with funds to start projects and establish strong foundations for future, larger studies,” Prof Thrift said.

More than 27,400 Australians experienced a stroke for the first time in 2020 and there are more than 445,000 survivors of stroke living in our community. Regional and rural Australia is bearing the brunt of stroke’s burden. Regional Australians are 17 percent more likely to experience a stroke than their metropolitan counterparts, regional Australians are also more likely to suffer poorer outcomes from stroke due to limited access to best practice treatment and care.

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