Deans' stroke musings: Combined cognitive and motor training improves the outcome in the early phase after stroke and prevents a decline of executive functions: 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.

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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.

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Combined cognitive and motor training improves the outcome in the early phase after stroke and prevents a decline of executive functions: A pilot study

Further research will be needed since they cherry picked survivors(moderately affected). No survivor is to be left behind so the mentors and senior researchers need to be disciplined for not setting up the research correctly.

Combined cognitive and motor training improves the outcome in the early phase after stroke and prevents a decline of executive functions: A pilot study

Neurorehabilitation , Volume 48(1) , Pgs. 97-108.

NARIC Accession Number: J86376. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Eschweiler, Mareike ; Bohr, Lara ; Kessler, Josef ; Fink, Gereon R. ; Kalbe, Elke ; Onur, Oezguer A..
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 12.

Abstract:

Study evaluated the effects of combined cognitive and motor training (CMT) in early stroke rehabilitation. In a controlled pilot study, 29 moderately affected stroke patients with low-level motor performance and cognitive impairment received motor therapy plus either cognitive (experimental group, EG) or low-frequency ergometer training (control group, CG) for eight days. Both groups improved their motor functioning significantly. After training, between-group comparison revealed significant differences for cognitive flexibility and trends for set-shifting, working memory, and reaction control in favor of the EG. Within-group effects showed improvement across all cognitive domains in the EG, which correlated with gains in bed-mobility, while the CG showed no significant improvement in cognition. Rather, a trend towards reaction control decline was observed, which correlated with less functional progression and recovery. Furthermore, a decline in cognitive flexibility, set-shifting, and working memory was descriptively observed. Combined CMT may enhance cognition and motor relearning early after stroke and is superior to single motor training. Further studies are needed to replicate these results and investigate long-term benefits.
Descriptor Terms: ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDERS, COGNITIVE DISABILITIES, MEMORY, MOTOR SKILLS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, STROKE.

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Citation: Eschweiler, Mareike , Bohr, Lara , Kessler, Josef , Fink, Gereon R. , Kalbe, Elke , Onur, Oezguer A.. (2021). Combined cognitive and motor training improves the outcome in the early phase after stroke and prevents a decline of executive functions: A pilot study. Neurorehabilitation , 48(1), Pgs. 97-108. Retrieved 6/22/2021, from REHABDATA database.