Deans' stroke musings: Instrumented trunk impairment scale (iTIS): A reliable measure of trunk impairment in the stroke population

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.

Saturday, October 23, 2021

Instrumented trunk impairment scale (iTIS): A reliable measure of trunk impairment in the stroke population

More useless measurements. What is needed are EXACT STROKE PROTOCOLS FOR RESTORING THE TRUNK. GET THERE!

Instrumented trunk impairment scale (iTIS): A reliable measure of trunk impairment in the stroke population

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 28(6) , Pgs. 455-462.

NARIC Accession Number: J87257. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Alhwoaimel, Norah ; Turk, Ruth ; Hughes, Ann-Marie ; Ferrari, Federico ; Burridge, Jane ; Wee, Seng K. ; Verheyden, Geert ; Warner, Martin.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 8.

Abstract:

Study investigated the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the instrumented Trunk Impairment Scale (iTIS) in chronic stroke patients(Who cares? Certainly not survivors.). Trunk impairment was assessed in 20 patients with stroke using the iTIS Valedo system, a wireless movement analysis system that comprises three lightweight sensors worn on the sternal, lumbar, and sacral spinal levels to measure trunk movement. Interclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were used to assess the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability. Reliability for the dynamic subscale parameters was good to excellent (intra-rater ICC = 0.60 to 0.95; inter-rater ICC = 0.59 to 0.93); however, reliability for the coordination parameters was poor to good (intra-rater ICC = 0.05 to 0.72) and poor to excellent (inter-rater ICC = 0.04 to 0.78). The iTIS demonstrates an acceptable level of reliability for dynamic subscale measurement in research and clinical practice. Further studies could use larger sample sizes and improve the iTIS methodology by employing additional sensors on the limbs to detect compensatory movements.
Descriptor Terms: BODY MOVEMENT, MEASUREMENTS, MOTOR SKILLS, OUTCOMES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, STROKE.

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Citation: Alhwoaimel, Norah , Turk, Ruth , Hughes, Ann-Marie , Ferrari, Federico , Burridge, Jane , Wee, Seng K. , Verheyden, Geert , Warner, Martin. (2021). Instrumented trunk impairment scale (iTIS): A reliable measure of trunk impairment in the stroke population. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 28(6), Pgs. 455-462. Retrieved 10/23/2021, from REHABDATA database.