Deans' stroke musings: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Arm Function After Stroke

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.

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Arm Function After Stroke

Really? You mean you haven't been doing this for survivors for 9 years already?

vagus nerve (51 posts to July 2012)

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Arm Function After Stroke

After ischemic stroke, vagus nerve stimulation with rehabilitation is a potential treatment for long-term moderate to severe arm impairment, according to findings of a randomized, triple-blind, sham-controlled study published in The Lancet.

Patients (N=108) with arm impairment after stroke were recruited from 19 sites in the UK and US between 2017 and 2019. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive rehabilitation paired with either active (n=53) or sham (n=55) vagus nerve stimulation.

All participants had a nerve stimulation device implanted. During treatment sessions, all participants received an initial 0.8 mA stimulation that was reduced by 0.1 mA each step. They then completed tasks while they were receiving active or sham stimulation. The active treatment comprised 0.8 mA for 100 ms followed by 30 Hz for 0.5 seconds during each repetition (>300 per session).