Deans' stroke musings: Effect of Gamification With Social Incentives on Daily Steps 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.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Effect of Gamification With Social Incentives on Daily Steps After Stroke

You wouldn't need to work on social incentives if you solved the correct problem. EXACT 100% RECOVERY PROTOCOLS! With that your patient would be way too busy doing the reps needed to accomplish the goal of recovery.

Effect of Gamification With Social Incentives on Daily Steps After Stroke

A Randomized Clinical Trial

Kimberly J. Waddell, PhD, MSCI¹; Mitesh S. Patel, MBA, MD²; Kayla Clark, BS³; et al Tory O. Harrington, MHCI⁴; S. Ryan Greysen, MD, MHA⁵

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JAMA Neurol. Published online March 28, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2022.0231

The annual costs of stroke in the US have exceeded $30 billion and are largely attributed to poststroke morbidity.¹ Regular physical activity after stroke is associated with reduced morbidity and helps prevent recurrent strokes, but some individuals remain inactive.² Previous interventions were primarily delivered in clinics and lacked support to facilitate skill translation to homes.³ Remote, individualized interventions paired with behavioral economic principles are efficacious for increasing physical activity⁴^,5 but are untested in patients with stroke. We assessed the effect of gamification with social incentives on daily steps among community-dwelling adults with stroke.

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