Deans' stroke musings: Effects of virtual reality intervention on neural plasticity in stroke rehabilitation: A systematic review.

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.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Effects of virtual reality intervention on neural plasticity in stroke rehabilitation: A systematic review.

Ok, you analyzed something but didn't create a rehab protocol, so useless.

Effects of virtual reality intervention on neural plasticity in stroke rehabilitation: A systematic review.

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , Volume 103(3) , Pgs. 523-541.

NARIC Accession Number: J88470. What's this?
ISSN: 0003-9993.
Author(s): Hao, Jie ; Xie, Haoyu ; Harp, Kimberly ; Chen, Zhen ; Siu, Ka-Chun.
Publication Year: 2022.
Number of Pages: 19.

Abstract:

Study examined the current literature regarding the effects of virtual reality-based rehabilitation on neural plasticity changes in survivors of stroke. Six bioscience and engineering databases were searched for studies published between 2000 and 2021 reporting on the pre-post assessment of a virtual-reality intervention with neural plasticity measures. Twenty-seven studies met the inclusion criteria. Two independent reviewers assessed methodological quality of controlled trials using the Physiotherapy Evidence Database scale and evaluated risk of bias of pre-post intervention and case studies using the National Institutes of Health Quality Assessment Tool. Seven randomized-controlled trials were rated as good quality and 2 clinical-controlled trials as moderate. Based on the risk of bias assessment, 1 pre-post study and 1 case study were graded as good quality, 1 pre-post study and 1 case study as poor, and the other 14 studies as fair. Results indicated that virtual-reality intervention induced changes in neural plasticity for survivors of stroke. Main neurophysiological findings across studies included: (1) improved interhemispheric balance; (2) enhanced cortical connectivity; (3) increased cortical mapping of the affected limb muscles; (4) the improved neural plasticity measures were correlated to the enhanced behavior outcomes; (5) increased activation of regions in frontal cortex; and (6) the mirror neuron system may be involved. The positive correlations between the neural plasticity changes and functional recovery elucidate the mechanisms of VR-based therapeutic effects in stroke rehabilitation.
Descriptor Terms: BRAIN, COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, IMAGING, LITERATURE REVIEWS, REHABILITATION, STROKE.

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Citation: Hao, Jie , Xie, Haoyu , Harp, Kimberly , Chen, Zhen , Siu, Ka-Chun. (2022). Effects of virtual reality intervention on neural plasticity in stroke rehabilitation: A systematic review. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 103(3), Pgs. 523-541. Retrieved 4/17/2022, from REHABDATA database.

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