Deans' stroke musings: Does an enriched environment affect patient activity levels at the Oxfordshire Stroke Rehabilitation Unit?

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.

Friday, November 26, 2021

Does an enriched environment affect patient activity levels at the Oxfordshire Stroke Rehabilitation Unit?

It took you over 10 years to start testing this out?

Because you are so out-of-date that you missed this enriched environment talked about by Dr. Dale Corbett in 2011 and did nothing until now?

Does an enriched environment affect patient activity levels at the Oxfordshire Stroke Rehabilitation Unit?

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2021.10.017

Purpose: Despite much innovation in stroke care over the past 10 years, patients remain inactive and alone, even in rehabilitation settings. Increased activity levels post stroke can improve functional outcomes, independence, and have a positive impact on quality of life. In recent years the concept of enriched environments gained traction as a potential method to increase activity levels without significant change in services resources or staffing. An enriched environment is simply one which promotes physical, cognitive and social activity through an enabling ethos and accessibility to relevant resources. The evidence base is rooted in animal models, which have shown increased potential for neuroplasticity in rats who, post-stroke, are confined in an enriched environment compared to those in an impoverished environment. It is thought there is potential for this theory to be extrapolated to human populations with preliminary positive findings coming from researchers in Australia. The aim of this project was to implement an enriched environment at the Oxfordshire Stroke Rehabilitation Unit, measure its impact on patient activity levels and evaluate the feasibility of the project.

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