Deans' stroke musings: The Rehabilitative Effects of Guided Motor Imagery on Gait and Balance in Older Adults

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, October 20, 2021

The Rehabilitative Effects of Guided Motor Imagery on Gait and Balance in Older Adults

5 pages at the link for your doctor to implement.

The Rehabilitative Effects of Guided Motor Imagery on Gait and Balance in Older Adults

Rebecca Matalon

Charity Johansson

Corresponding Author:
Rebecca Matalon, rmatalon2@elon.edu
Citation:
Matalon, R., Johansson, C. (2021). The Rehabilitative Effects of Guided Motor Imagery on Gait and Balance in Older Adults.
Academia Letters
, Article 2851.
https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2851

Falls are a leading cause of injury, disability, nursing home admission, and death amon golder adults (Bohl, Gill, Shumway-Cook, Tinetti). Each year about one-third of community-dwelling adults, 65 years of age or older, fall at least once. Among those aged 80 years or older, the percentage is 50% (Inouye). As a result, identifying costeffective interventions to reduce the risk of falls among older adults continues to be a focus of intense inquiry (Bruce,Matchar)Strengthening exercises, balance training, and gait training are evidence-based interventions used by physical therapists to reduce fall-risk (Matchar). However, the effcacy of motor imagery (MI) has been investigated as another means of improving functional performance.MI is the cognitive practice of a physical skill in the absence of gross motor movement(Fansler, Nakano). Positive results have been reported for more than two decades on theuse of MI to improve several aspects of motor performance in athletes (Driediger, MacIn-tyre, Taktek) and non-athlete adults to improve motor performance (Dickstein, Nakano). Fewstudies have focused on the use of MI in the following conditions: independent of physical practice, in the treatment of gait or balance dysfunctions in older adults without a primary neuromuscular condition (such as stroke or PD) (Deutsch), or in the treatment of gait and balance dysfunctions concurrently.