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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.

Monday, October 11, 2021

The effects of action observation training as an add-on rehabilitation strategy on the walking ability of patients with chronic stroke

 

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The effects of action observation training as an add-on rehabilitation strategy on the walking ability of patients with chronic stroke

HadiAligholiabAfshinBorhani-HaghighidRoohollahZahediannasbabMahshidHekmatniaeMohammad TaghiKarimif
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbmt.2021.09.029Get rights and content

Abstract

Objective

Stroke is one of the most debilitating neurological disorders that commonly results in both cognitive and motor dysfunctions. Although the recovery of gait is one of the main goals of patients with stroke, only 50–60% of the patients commonly reach this target. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of action observation training, based on mirror neurons, as an add-on therapy to the conventional physical rehabilitation on the gait performance of patients with stroke.

Methods

Fourteen patients with chronic stroke were randomly assigned to the sham or the experimental group. Both groups received a 40-min conventional physical training following a 12-min observation training depicting exercises for the experimental group but nature pictures for the sham group each session. The patients’ walking was recorded using a motion analysis system at baseline and after the 12-session intervention. Spatiotemporal parameters of gait and ground reaction forces were measured.

Results

Significant improvements were found in most measured spatiotemporal parameters of gait on the unaffected side of the patients in the experimental group, while in the sham group, the recovery was observed only in the percentage of the stance phase. Regarding the affected side, the stride and step length of the patients in the experimental group were parameters with a significant amelioration.

Conclusion

The results of this study showed that the action observation training had the potential to improve the walking quality of the patients with hemiplegia in the chronic phase of stroke.

 
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